[CPEO-IRF] Maryland's BRAC plan

[Lenny Siegel <lennysiegel@gmail.com>]

State outlines plan for smoothing BRAC expansion
Initiatives would steer some business and residential growth to 
Baltimore and other communities

By Timothy B. Wheeler
Baltimore Sun (MD)
November 20, 2007

Maryland officials outlined yesterday a smorgasbord of initiatives 
intended to smooth the way for an influx in the next few years of 
thousands of high-tech defense workers and their families.

The plan, the product of nearly six months of meetings between state and 
local officials, calls for a variety of moves to steer at least some of 
the expected business and residential growth into Baltimore City and 
other communities near the expanding bases, particularly Aberdeen 
Proving Ground and Fort Meade.

One of the more notable proposals calls for creation of so-called "BRAC 
zones," where tax credits or other incentives might encourage 
base-related business and residential growth in areas served by public 
transit and in need of revitalization.


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For the entire article, see
http://www.baltimoresun.com/news/local/bal-md.brac20nov20,0,4329903.story

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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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