[CPEO-IRF] Ingleside Local Redevelopment Authority (TX) recognized

[Lenny Siegel <lennysiegel@gmail.com>]

BRAC group eligible for funds
Recognition comes after 1 and a half years of disputes

Fanny S. Chirinos
Corpus Christi Caller-Times (TX)
September 27, 2007


The Ingleside Local Redevelopment Authority has received federal 
recognition that could lead to control of federal dollars -- a goal 
reached after 18 months of fighting among officials from two counties.

Those federal dollars would be for redevelopment of Naval Station 
Ingleside -- or at least the fraction of the base property assigned to 
the group.

The Ingleside Local Redevelopment Authority is an eight-member group of 
two representatives each from the cities of Corpus Christi and Ingleside 
and the counties of San Patricio and Nueces. Of the base's more than 
1,000 acres, the authority will be charged with planning the 
redevelopment of 155 acres. The remaining acres revert to the Port of 
Corpus Christi, which turned down an invitation to participate in the 
Ingleside group.

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For the entire article, see
http://www.caller.com/news/2007/sep/27/lrameeting/

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Lenny Siegel
Executive Director, Center for Public Environmental Oversight
a project of the Pacific Studies Center
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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