[CPEO-MEF] Fort Lee (VA) Growth Management Plan

[Lenny Siegel <lennysiegel@gmail.com>]

Good turnout for meeting on growth from Fort Lee

BY LINDSAY SIMPSON
Petersburg Progress Index (VA)
February 4, 2007


PETERSBURG - More than 200 community leaders, residents and business
owners turned out for last night’s meeting at Union Train Station, where
the Fort Lee Growth Management Plan was presented to the public. The
plan addressed the personnel growth at Fort Lee due to the Base
Realignment and Closure actions of 2005 and how it will affect the
surrounding jurisdictions.

The verdict is that none of the six localities will escape the effects
of BRAC, all of them expecting to gain residents over the span of the
next six years. Most of the numbers are calculated through 2013, once
the BRAC construction and personnel changes are complete.

Major findings include housing, education and child care points. The
plan stated that the house pricing within the income brackets of those
relocating to Fort Lee should be between $200,000 and $300,000. After
$300,000 the ability to pay for the home significantly drops.


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For the entire article, see
http://www.zwire.com/site/news.cfm?newsid081324&BRD"71&PAGF1&dept_idF2946&rfi=6

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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>
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