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

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Navy at odds with Concord, HUD over homeless plans

By Paul Thissen
Contra Costa Times (CA)
September 18, 2009


CONCORD — The Navy does not approve of the homeless-accommodations 
portion of Concord's redevelopment plan for the shuttered Concord Naval 
Weapons Station, according to documents obtained through the Freedom of 
Information Act.

Local leaders cast the months-long discussions between two federal 
agencies — one of which supports the plan, one of which does not — as a 
minor bump in a Byzantine, years-long process that depends on everything 
from the slow real estate market to presidential politics.

Whether the Navy's opposition will eventually affect or delay the 
redevelopment plan is not clear.

Until the plan - including the homeless accommodations - are finally 
approved, the Navy's environmental study is held "in abeyance," 
according to the Navy, though it continues to work on some of the 
natural and cultural studies for the final analysis.

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For the entire article, see
http://www.contracostatimes.com/news/ci_13368697?nclick_check=1

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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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