[CPEO-MEF] REUSE: Ft. Ord National Monument infrastructure

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Activists push Seaside to start marketing Fort Ord National Monument  
to tourists.

By Kera Abraham
Monterey County Weekly (CA)
January 10, 2013

The most likely access point from the city of Seaside to the newly  
minted Fort Ord National Monument is a dead-end road. There's no  
visitor center, no parking, no bathrooms - not even any signs, at  
least not yet.

The monument on the former Army base is less than a year old, and its  
development depends on a munitions clean-up effort that, two decades  
in, still has years to go. But some activists say the city's crazy to  
not be marketing the heck out of what could be a tourist draw on par  
with Pinnacles National Monument.

A Nov. 1 version of Seaside's Economic Opportunity Plan for 2013  
included promotion of the monument through directional signage and  
improved access. But at the City Council's request, the language was  
revised to leave only the call for signage.


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For the entire article, see
http://www.montereycountyweekly.com/news/2013/jan/10/monumental-asset/

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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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