[CPEO-MEF] REUSE: Support for national park at Fort Monroe (VA)

[Lenny Siegel <lennysiegel@gmail.com>]

Public's plea: Make Fort Monroe a national park

By Kate Wiltrout, Associated Press
Virginian-Pilot
July 20, 2011

HAMPTON - If federal officials had any doubts about whether the  
public supports Fort Monroe becoming part of the National Park  
Service, a pair of meetings Tuesday surely cleared things up.

More than 500 turned out for a midday public-comment session  
regarding the future of the historic fort, which the Army is vacating  
in September. Hundreds more flocked to the city's convention center  
for an evening gathering to express support for Congress - or  
President Barack Obama - designating the waterfront property as a  
national park or national monument.

Speaker after speaker told Terry Moore, a park service planning  
chief, that the 570-acre waterfront property deserves federal  
protection.

On Sept. 15, most of the property will revert to the state. The  
governor and the state agency overseeing the base's reuse, the Fort  
Monroe Authority, support the idea of a national park and envision a  
shared effort to manage the property. The authority will oversee the  
leasing of residential and office space, with controlled development  
limited to specified areas. Hampton, state and federal officials all  
want to see the fort become self-sustaining.

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For the entire article, see
http://hamptonroads.com/2011/07/public-meetings-today-hampton-fort- 
monroe

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Lenny Siegel
Executive Director, Center for Public Environmental Oversight
a project of the Pacific Studies Center
278-A Hope Street, Mountain View, CA 94041
Voice: 650-961-8918 or 650-969-1545
Fax: 650-961-8918
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