[CPEO-IRF] Barbers Point (HI)

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Kalaeloa picture clears after carrier decision
Military may still need facility for assault ship

By Derrick DePledge and William Cole
Honolulu Advertiser
March 31, 2007
	

The U.S. Navy's decision yesterday to shift the USS Carl Vinson aircraft 
carrier to San Diego instead of Pearl Harbor removes a shadow over the 
redevelopment of potentially valuable land at Kalaeloa in West O'ahu.

The possible relocation of the carrier to Pearl Harbor and its air wing 
to Kalaeloa had colored almost every new idea for land on or near the 
former Barbers Point Naval Air Station, from affordable housing and 
high-tech industry to minimum-security prisons and a world-class 
motorsports complex.

With the aircraft carrier now out of the picture, state officials and 
business leaders said they could look at the future of Kalaeloa with 
more certainty.

"There is more clarity about what would be the best use of the property 
out there," said Jim Tollefson, the president of the Chamber of Commerce 
of Hawai'i.

Gov. Linda Lingle, who wants the state to purchase more land at Kalaeloa 
for housing and economic development, said the Navy's decision helps the 
state move forward.



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For the entire article, see
http://www.honoluluadvertiser.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20070331/NEWS08/703310347/1001/NEWS

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Lenny Siegel
Director, Center for Public Environmental Oversight
c/o PSC, 278-A Hope St., Mountain View, CA 94041
Voice: 650/961-8918 or 650/969-1545
Fax: 650/961-8918
<lsiegel@cpeo.org>
http://www.cpeo.org


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