[CPEO-MEF] REUSE: Willow Grove (PA) reuse plan

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Process for reuse of Willow Grove Naval Air Station discussed in Horsham


By Thomas Celona
Montgomery News (PA)
February 8, 2011

Horsham Township residents had their first chance to hear about the 
10-month process for creating a reuse plan for the Willow Grove Naval 
Air Station Joint Reserve Base during a public meeting Monday night.

With a standing-room-only crowd packing the township community center, 
the Horsham Township Authority, or the Horsham Land Reuse Authority 
(HLRA), introduced residents to the firm that will be developing the 
reuse master plan and implementation strategy for the base.

The U.S. military designated the Willow Grove base as surplus in 
September 2010, and the base was ordered to be closed as part of the 
2005 Base Realignment and Closure Act. All military aircraft set to be 
gone by this April and the base will close Sept. 15.

The base leaves 892 acres of surplus property in Horsham — approximately 
7 percent of the township's total acreage — along with approximately 54 
acres in Bucks County.

...

For the entire article, see
http://www.montgomerynews.com/articles/2011/02/08/public_spirit_willow_grove_guide/news/doc4d51a7881e249797070387.txt

--


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
<lsiegel@cpeo.org>
http://www.cpeo.org



_______________________________________________
Military mailing list
Military@lists.cpeo.org
http://lists.cpeo.org/listinfo.cgi/military-cpeo.org