[CPEO-IRF] Maryland cost sharing

[Lenny Siegel <lennysiegel@gmail.com>]

Funding BRAC growth at issue
State studies options for getting private developers on bases to share cost

By Timothy B. Wheeler
Baltimore Sun (MD)
October 5, 2007


The O'Malley administration is reviewing its options for getting private 
developers on military bases to share the costs of highway upgrades and 
other infrastructure needed to accommodate growth, Lt. Gov. Anthony G. 
Brown said yesterday.

Speaking at a base-realignment planning meeting in Annapolis, Brown said 
private developers winning long-term leases from the Army and other 
military services to build offices, laboratories, hotels, restaurants 
and stores on bases in Maryland need to "shoulder their responsibility" 
for handling the off-base traffic generated by their projects.

The lieutenant governor said administration officials are reviewing the 
law to see if the state government can seek payments from private 
developers on military bases for such impacts on surrounding communities.


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For the entire article, see
http://www.baltimoresun.com/news/local/annearundel/bal-md.ar.brac05oct05,0,5885825.story

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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>
http://www.cpeo.org


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