2007 CPEO Installation Reuse Forum Archive

From: Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>
Date: 30 May 2007 20:28:01 -0000
Reply: cpeo-irf
Subject: [CPEO-IRF] BRAC impact on Fairfax County (VA)
 
Regional impact may redraw picture of BRAC

William C. Flook
The Examiner (DC)
May 29, 2007

Fairfax - Nearly 15,000 Department of Defense workers are leaving the region under Base Closure and Realignment Commission orders, a fact that has prompted Fort Belvoir to rethink how it is planning for the federally directed job shift, according to the base’s spokesman.

While 22,000 jobs are arriving at the base by 2011, a net 14,478 are moving out of the National Capital Region as a result of the nationwide shift of military facilities, according to Belvoir spokesman Don Carr. Though some of the 22,000 jobs may mean people moving to Fairfax, some of the 14,478 jobs may result in military and DOD personnel moving out of the Fairfax area.

That net loss could change existing notions of how BRAC will burden government services and infrastructure in Fairfax County. While the addition of a Pentagon-size work force at Belvoir is widely expected to overwhelm the area’s roads and schools, the region’s overall exodus may cushion that blow.


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For the entire article, see
http://www.examiner.com/a-752236~Regional_impact_may_redraw_picture_of_BRAC.html

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Lenny Siegel
Director, Center for Public Environmental Oversight
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