[CPEO-MEF] REUSE: Economic Development Conveyance and Treasure Island (CA)

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Speaker Pelosi has her eye on Treasure Island

By Roxana Tiron
The Hill (DC)
July 29, 2009

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) is eyeing treasure in a massive 
Pentagon bill that could benefit her district greatly.

Pelosi is among dozens of House lawmakers pressing for a little-known 
provision in the defense policy bill that would speed up the transfer of 
military bases to private developers.

One of those shuttered bases has been the subject of years of failed 
negotiations between San Francisco, the city Pelosi represents, and the 
Navy.

The two parties have been at a stalemate over Treasure Island, a Navy 
base that closed in 1993 and sits atop a man-made island in the San 
Francisco Bay that has city planners seeing dollar signs.

....

For the entire article, see
http://thehill.com/leading-the-news/speaker-pelosi-has-her-eye-on-treasure-island-2009-07-29.html

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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
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