[CPEO-IRF] Alameda Point (CA) townhouses

[Lenny Siegel <lennysiegel@gmail.com>]

Alameda to ask Navy for reins to vacant facility
Council wants to lease abandoned property as housing

By Alan Lopez
Inside Bay Area (CA)
August 18, 2007

ALAMEDA = The city has taken a step forward last week in giving new life 
to otherwise vacant, moribund military housing facility located at 
Mosley and Singleton avenues near Alameda Point.

Owned by the Navy and used by the Coast Guard for about 10 years, the 
property, consisting of 280 aging townhouses, is known as the North 
Housing complex.

The City Council last week authorized the city manager to approach the 
Navy with a request for a lease and caretaker agreement for the 
property. The request could potentially allow the city to take over the 
maintenance of the units and lease them as housing once again.

"We definitely want to do this because we don't want that housing to 
become blighted," Mayor Beverly Johnson said.



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For the entire article, seee
http://www.insidebayarea.com/localnews/ci_6657478

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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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