[CPEO-IRF] Fairfax County (VA) roadwork

[Lenny Siegel <lennysiegel@gmail.com>]

Fairfax asking for voter approval to spend $8.5 million on BRAC projects


Joe Rogalsky
Washington Examiner (DC)
October 20, 2007

The transportation bond package Fairfax County wants its residents to 
approve includes money for road work needed to accommodate a looming 
influx of federal employees, officials said Friday.

The $110 million proposal, which will be on the ballot Nov. 6, allocates 
$8.5 million for improvements to roads around Fort Belvoir, where the 
military expects to relocate 19,000 workers by 2011.

The employee movements are part of the 2005 Base Realignment and Closure 
process. County officials believe the military should pay for the work 
needed to upgrade roads and transit facilities to handle the shift, but 
admit that is not likely. On Monday, the county's board of supervisors 
voted to spend $44.5 million on Fort Belvoir projects out of the revenue 
Fairfax will receive from the transportation funding plan the state 
enacted this year.

The Army has estimated transportation projects related to worker influx 
at Fort Belvoir will cost $450 million, but the county transportation 
officials believe another $1 billion in work will be needed.

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For the entire article, see
http://www.examiner.com/a-1000039~Fairfax_asking_for_voter_approval_to_spend__8_5_million_on_BRAC_projects.html


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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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