Tampa to study encroachment to discourage MacDill AFB closure

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

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Iorio Seeks To Protect MacDill From Base Closures

By ANDY REID and RICHARD LARDNER
The Tampa Tribune
April 7, 2004

TAMPA - Mayor Pam Iorio plans to lead a committee of community leaders
studying ways to protect MacDill Air Force Base from a possible round of
base closings.

One of the committee's first proposed actions is to apply for about
$120,000 from the federal government to pay for a study of how to keep
Tampa's "urban encroachment" from interfering with base operations.

The committee, scheduled to start meeting April 19, includes the base
commander, Air Force Col. David "Tanker" Snyder, as well as Councilman
John Dingfelder and Hillsborough County Commissioner Kathy Castor, whose
districts include MacDill.

Iorio intends to serve as chairwoman of the panel charged with looking
for ways to keep commercial, residential and industrial development from
diminishing the viability of base operations as the federal government
considers base closings nationwide.

"We are always vulnerable," said Mark Huey, Iorio's economic development
administrator. "Our administration is committed to doing all that we
need to do and can do to make sure MacDill is successful."

The federal money would be used for a joint land-use study intended to
make recommendations about surrounding development and the base's impact
on its neighbors. An outside contractor would be hired to help.

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for the entire story, see
http://news.tbo.com/news/MGA1RVISQSD.html

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Lenny Siegel
Director, Center for Public Environmental Oversight
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Voice: 650/961-8918 or 650/969-1545
Fax: 650/961-8918
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