[CPEO-MEF] Mare Island (CA) security

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Concerns linger over lack of Mare Island security

By Chris G. Denina
Vallejo Times-Herald (CA)
November 12, 2004

For the past eight years, Vallejo officials have restricted access to 
Mare Island as they work to convert the former naval shipyard to 
civilian use.

For most of the previous 142 years of military control, the public was 
locked out of the base. But last month, the city opted to take down the 
barriers. And everyone isn't happy about it.

The guards at Mare Island's Tennessee Street entrance have left. The 
security checkpoint at the causeway gate is closed. And the former 
military base is on its way to becoming just another part of Vallejo, 
free for all to visit and explore.

"I think it signals the point in which the development has arrived," 
Mayor Tony Intintoli Jr. said Monday.

The city's goal for the former base is to merge it with the Vallejo 
mainland, Intintoli said. Closing the guard station was a move in that 
direction, he said.

The decision was made after considering that today more than 70 
businesses employ about 1,500 people on Mare Island, and next year the 
first wave of new residents is expected to move onto the old base, 
Intintoli said.
…

For the entire article, see
http://www.thereporter.com/Stories/0,1413,295~30195~2530650,00.html

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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
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