[CPEO-MEF] MUNITIONS: Fort Ord Reuse Authority "seeks to cut down trees at Parker Flats"

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

FORA seeks to cut down trees at Parker Flats
Legality of removing trees, building houses on the land appears  
questionable

By VIRGINIA HENNESSEY
Monterey Herald (CA)
August 29, 2012

The Fort Ord Reuse Authority is planning to cut down hundreds of  
trees to clear munitions in preparation for housing on land that may  
be restricted from residential use by two official agreements.

The project will clear all vegetation from three wooded areas,  
totaling 12 acres, north of Parker Flats Road. Included is a half- 
mile long, 50-foot wide strip of land between Parker Flats Cutoff and  
8th Avenue.

The land is commonly called the "endowment property," because the  
proceeds of its purchase will provide operating costs for the planned  
veterans cemetery immediately to its south. It is also part of the  
proposed Monterey Downs development, which would include 1,500  
residences, 400 hotel rooms, retail areas, an Olympic-sized aquatic  
and tennis center and a horse-racing track.

...

For the entire article, see
http://www.montereyherald.com/local/ci_21400768/fora-seeks-cut-down- 
trees-at-parker-flats#



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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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