[CPEO-MEF] REUSE: Concord Naval Weapons Station (CA)

[Lenny Siegel <lennysiegel@gmail.com>]

Concord may ignore Navy deadline on former weapons station

by Marie-Anne Hogarth
East Bay Business Times (CA)
August 12, 2008

The city of Concord says it will take the time it needs to adopt a plan 
for redevelopment of the 5,028-acre former Concord Naval Weapons 
Station, even if that means blowing off a deadline from the Department 
of Defense.

Concord asked the DOD's Office of Economic Adjustment for a 12-month 
extension from the original June 2008 deadline to create a redevelopment 
plan for the land, but was only given through Sept. 20. Also by that 
time, Concord must also submit an agreement with providers of homeless 
services who have applied to use the site, common in base redevelopments.

The city says it will ask for another extension, but move forward with 
its own process regardless of whether it gets the extension or not.

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For the entire article, see
http://eastbay.bizjournals.com/eastbay/stories/2008/08/11/story3.html?b=1218427200%5E1682407

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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
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