[CPEO-IRF] Maryland - private development on military bases

[Lenny Siegel <lennysiegel@gmail.com>]

Army urged to share cost of local BRAC upgrades

By Timothy B. Wheeler
Baltimore Sun
September 11, 2007


State and local officials are pressing the Army to do more to help with 
road and transit upgrades around Maryland's expanding bases because 
millions of dollars in tax revenues could be lost from huge private 
office developments being built on the military installations.

"It's problematic for us, quite frankly," state Transportation Secretary 
John D. Porcari said yesterday, when asked about the impact of a 
15-building, $700 million office complex the Army is negotiating to 
build at Fort Meade in Anne Arundel County.

The Army has announced it is negotiating the lease of land at both Fort 
Meade and Aberdeen Proving Ground in Harford County to private 
developers who would build offices and research space for defense 
contractors and other tenants. Because the land is federally owned, the 
developers would not pay property taxes.


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For the entire article, see
http://www.baltimoresun.com/news/local/bal-te.md.brac11sep11,0,4313882.story

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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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