[CPEO-MEF] REUSE: Ingleside (TX) Redevelopment Authority

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Ingleside LRA fighting escalates over base land, federal dollars
Disagreements involve U.S. Rep. Ortiz

By Fanny S. Chirinos
Corpus Christi Caller-Times (TX)
June 23, 2009

CORPUS CHRISTI — The Ingleside Local Redevelopment Authority ended what 
may prove to be its last meeting Monday in the same tone as the group 
was established two years ago amid political bickering.

In 2007, the issues were whether the group should exist, who should be 
in charge and who should serve as board members. On Monday, the issues 
were whether it should continue to exist, who should be appointed to the 
board and whether some current members are ineligible.

....

The authority, established in 2007, is charged with planning the 
redevelopment of 155 mostly underwater surplus acres of Naval Station 
Ingleside.

The vast majority of Naval Station Ingleside property -- 912 acres -- 
will belong to the Port of Corpus Christi, which has entered an 
agreement with the Texas A&M University System to oversee its 
redevelopment. The 912 acres goes to the port because the port donated 
that land for the base.

....

For the entire article, see
http://www.caller.com/news/2009/jun/22/fighting-escalates-over-ingleside-navy-base-land/

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Lenny Siegel
Executive Director, Center for Public Environmental Oversight
a project of the Pacific Studies Center
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