From: | Lenny Siegel <lennysiegel@gmail.com> |
Date: | 28 Jul 2007 00:00:54 -0000 |
Reply: | cpeo-irf |
Subject: | [CPEO-IRF] Ft. Belvoir (VA) expansion reduced |
[My view: Sanity partially prevails, for one. - LS] Army-Va. Deal Cuts Jobs Headed For Belvoir New Plan Eases Worries About Traffic in Fairfax By Amy Gardner Washington Post July 27, 2007The Army has agreed to dramatically scale back plans to move 22,000 jobs to Fort Belvoir in southeastern Fairfax County, averting a widely predicted traffic catastrophe and eliminating pressure on state and local officials to spend nearly $500 million in road and transit improvements. Under an agreement with state officials, the Army would cap at about 8,500 the number of jobs to be moved from the Pentagon, Crystal City and other locations in the Washington area to Belvoir's isolated Engineering Proving Ground. An additional 3,500 jobs are still scheduled to move to Fort Belvoir's main post. The number of jobs headed for the proving ground was set at 18,500 in 2005, when the Army and Congress orchestrated base closures and realignments to cut spending and comply with tighter security guidelines established after the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks. ... For the entire article, see http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/07/26/AR2007072601894.html -- 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 _______________________________________________ Installation_Reuse_Forum mailing list Installation_Reuse_Forum@list.cpeo.org http://www.cpeo.org/mailman/listinfo/installation_reuse_forum | |
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