[CPEO-IRF] El Toro (CA) auction planned

[Lenny Siegel <lennysiegel@gmail.com>]

Fall Auction for El Toro Parcels Set
'We are ready to go,' says a Navy official. The sales of the Marine base 
land are expected to be completed by July.

By Daniel Yi
Los Angeles Times
September 11, 204

Offering the most definitive timeline yet for the sale of the closed El 
Toro Marine base to developers, a high ranking Navy official said Friday 
that the auction for the land will begin this fall and be completed 
before the end of July.

Demolition of the former military airfield's runway could begin shortly 
after that, erasing the physical vestige of a political battle that 
divided Orange County for a decade.

...

Federal and state environmental agencies recently cleared the base for 
transfer to civilian use, but several pieces of land will remain in Navy 
hands while it conducts further environmental tests and cleanup.

Those pieces, which add up to 995 acres, are spread over three of the 
four parcels. The carved out areas will be leased to the parcel buyers, 
then deeded to them once the cleanup or testing is completed.

...

For the entire article, see
http://www.latimes.com/news/printedition/california/la-la-me-greatparkbsep11,1,882293.story?coll=la-headlines-pe-california&ctrack=1&cset=true

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Lenny Siegel
Director, Center for Public Environmental Oversight
c/o PSC, 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

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