2008 CPEO Military List Archive

From: Lenny Siegel <lennysiegel@gmail.com>
Date: Fri, 11 Apr 2008 09:36:22 -0700 (PDT)
Reply: cpeo-military
Subject: [CPEO-MEF] REUSE: Possible Moffett Field (CA) planning process
 
Dibs on Moffett
Federal base could be up for grabs one day, and one council member wants 
a plan in place

by Daniel DeBolt
Mountain View Voice (CA)
April 11, 2008

In 1931, Mountain View and Sunnyvale gave 1,000 acres of what is now 
Moffett Field to the Navy for $1. Today, at least one City Council 
member wants Mountain View to have a plan in case it's ever given back.

At a goal-setting meeting last month, council member Jac Siegel called 
for a "high level" plan for Moffett, where people have disagreed about 
what to do with its 2,000 acres.

Opening up the former air base for housing and parks may be hard to 
imagine, but "there are a lot of places where the unthinkable has 
happened — places that were air bases and they are now residential 
areas," said Lenny Siegel of the Mountain View-based Center for Public 
Environmental Oversight. "People didn't think it would happen, but it did."


...

For the entire article, see
http://www.mv-voice.com/story.php?story_id=3934

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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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