[CPEO-MEF] REUSE: Horsham (PA) approves Willow Grove Naval Air Station plan

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

"A plan to move forward" on Willow Grove air base site

By Jeremy Roebuck
Philadelphia Inquirer (PA)
March 21, 2012

Last summer, hundreds of residents filled meeting halls in Horsham to  
say what they didn't want built on the site of the now-shuttered  
Willow Grove Naval Air Station: a commercial airport.

But as area planners met Wednesday to approve a final proposal to  
fill the nearly 900-acre hole in the heart of their community,  
precious few looked on.

"Now we have a plan to move forward," W. William Whiteside III,  
chairman of the Horsham Land Reuse Authority, told about 30 people.  
"The airport issue was a big one for the residents of Horsham, but  
we've come a long way in seven years."

...

For the entire article, see
http://articles.philly.com/2012-03-21/news/31220692_1_horsham- 
residents-master-plan-office-park

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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
<lsiegel@cpeo.org>
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