[CPEO-MEF] Ft. Lewis (WA) golf course

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

County opposes sale of Fort Lewis Golf Course

Tacoma Daily News (WA)
May 30, 2007

All of Pierce County should be able to play and enjoy the Fort Lewis 
Golf Course for the foreseeable future, the Pierce County Council 
declared yesterday.

By a 4-0 vote with Councilmember Barbara Gelman abstaining, the council 
passed a resolution (R2007-62) asking the U.S. Army not to sell 514 
acres along Interstate 5 that includes the golf course and to continue 
operating it as a military-owned facility.

Councilmember Dick Muri said any reduction in Fort Lewis' territory 
would constitute encroachment that could affect the post's long-term 
ability to perform its mission. "Any encroachment on Fort Lewis and 
McChord is unacceptable," said Muri, the measure's prime sponsor, whose 
Council District 6 includes both military bases. "Fort Lewis is a very 
small, increasingly urbanized installation and it needs all the land it 
has -- and then some."

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For the entire article, see
http://www.tacomadailyindex.com/portals-code/list.cgi?paper=88&cat=23&id=995819&more=0

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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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