Locally, Naval Air Station Oceana in Virginia Beach dodged the BRAC bullet, but the city and state is going to have to spend major dollars to alleviate "encroachment" upon the base. Seems that the Navy has been complaining since 1970 about developers building too close to the base and Virginia Beach has ignored them. Now people are complaining about jet noise and planes flying over their houses (90% of which were built since 1970). VaBeach has been crapping their pants since the potential BRAC list came out.
Also, the oldest fort in the US, Fort Monroe in Hampton, VA is closing. Fortifications at that site date back to the 1600's. The present fort dates back to 1819.
Seems it could be made into a state park.
I HATE people who build up to an airport right-of-way and then complain about airplane noise. That is just so f'n wrong.
Interestingly, Eileson AFB over by Fairbanks was on the BRAC list and Galena wasn't. Some city council people at Fairbanks asked the BRAC commission visitors how come Eielson is closing and Galena was staying.
Galena was under the radar to Washington until some people unmasked us. The town only has a population of 500 people so there is no voting base to influence people.
Thanks to Fairbanks, we got screwed earlier than planned.
Oh well. Get me to May 2006! :-)
I hope the NPS takes over Fort Monroe. There isn't any "hazardous" issues at all. The inspectors that were there metal detected the entire area, 90% of the items found were discarded "pop" tops and soda cans