I work at Fort Meade, and with the BRAC, there will be 50,000 jobs on the base, plus thousands more around it. with no transit, this is only going to be a burden for the highway system between DC and Baltimore. The transit options are laughable,and there is little hope of living close enough to walk to work even if you live ON Fort Meade.
How this could have been allowed is beyond me. It clearly shows massive gaps in federal planning policy.
"Those who fail to prepare, prepare to fail!" This is what i think happened here...
Well it was a problem with the process. Many of the costs of relocation are saved by the DOD by offloading them onto subsidiary jurisdictions. Again, if the NEPA analysis (National Environmental Policy Act) was broader, this should have been picked up and addressed directly within the process.
Richard, David Alpert pointed this out in his post on the same subject, but processes like BRAC wouldn't be subject to local land use regulations. The Feds can override that, especially the military.
.....maybe it's a long term agenda to move all of the functions of the national capitol out of DC proper so that they can set up shop in Phoenix or Denver.
Of course this resoning dies when one considers what they did with the Washington Navy Yard over the past 10 years- which was quite the opposite.Many many thousands of jobs were added to this area.
Which is why federal planning matters, which is the whole point of the post. That NEPA isn't equal to CEQA in terms of its impact. That the federal environmental review and assessment process for federal undertakings needs to be upgraded.
note that NCPC is the "National" capital planning commission, tasked with responsibility for _federal_ planning in the DC region.
This is a federal matter that should have been handled much better by federal planning.
hence what I wrote...
and btw I identified these likely problems 3 years ago, when the BRAC stuff first came out.
http://
urbanplacesandspaces.blog...alter+reed+brac
It seems as though one hand does not know what the other hand perpetrates.
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