[CPEO-MEF] REALIGNMENT: Middletown (CT) Reserve Center

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Search For Army Base Site An Unnecessary Battle

Editorial
Hartford Courant (CT)
April 15, 2009


The Army Corps of Engineers finally acceded to good sense and the wishes 
of local and state officials in its choice of a site for a new Armed 
Forces Reserve Center in Middletown. The Army announced this week that 
its preferred location for the new facility is Cucia Park, a 40-acre 
site near I-91 that is owned by the city and zoned for industrial use.

Gov. M. Jodi Rell called the selection a "big victory." What remains 
troubling is that there was even a battle. The process to find this site 
was a fiasco.

The new training center is needed because several facilities around the 
state are being closed per the 2005 recommendations of the Base 
Realignment and Closure Commission. Someone - it's never been clear who 
- wrote into the commission's law that the location of the new center 
would be Middletown, if a suitable site could be found.

...

For the entire editorial, see
http://www.courant.com/news/opinion/editorials/hc-middletown-army-training-bas.artapr15,0,846392.story

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Lenny Siegel
Executive Director, Center for Public Environmental Oversight
a project of the Pacific Studies Center
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Voice: 650/961-8918 or 650/969-1545
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