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CONCORD NAVAL WEAPONS STATION REUSE PLAN
On August 2nd...
BALANCING THE
ALTERNATIVES...
...at the Concord Naval Weapons Station
Come to the next City of Concord Community
Workshop on the reuse of the Concord Naval Weapons Station,
share with your neighbors your vision for the future of Concord,
and help support the Community Coalition for a Sustainable
Concord’s platform of open space, transit oriented development
with living wage jobs and housing that’s affordable to all
Concord residents!
Reuse Plan Community Workshop
Saturday, August 2, 2008—9 a.m. to 12 Noon
Concord Senior Center,
2727 Parkside Circle, Concord
For more information on how you can get involved in the campaign
for just, sustainable development at the Concord Naval Weapons
Station, please click
HERE or contact the Community
Coalition for a Sustainable Concord at (925) 246-5838 or via
email at:
CCSC@EBHO.org.
The City of
Concord is planning the reuse of the 5,100-acre Concord Naval
Weapons Station--the largest development project in the East
Bay. The project could create a traffic nightmare from East
County to the Bay Bridge, with development wall to wall, or it
could protect thousands of acres of open space. The City's
alternatives currently being considered would add 6,250 to
13,000 new residential units (and related traffic) to Concord.
None of the alternatives contain the 80% parks & open space the
community is requesting. This kind of development would fragment
open space, block potential recreational corridors, and destroy
wildlife habitat, including Mt. Diablo Creek.
Save Mount Diablo is part of the Community Coalition for a
Sustainable Concord (Community Coalition).
The Coalition is a collection of affordable housing, interfaith,
labor, conservation & neighborhood organizations seeking a plan
that preserves the Weapons Station's natural resources and
scenic hillsides.
We support an alternative which protects
80% of the base for parks, open space, and recreation.
We support the creation of a major new regional park east of
Mount Diablo creek, a 300' buffer to the creek, and an urban
linear park along the Station's western boundary.
Transit-oriented development should be centered on North Concord
BART, north of Highway 4 and in "Bunker City" between the urban
park and the creek buffer.
Click on the link to the left to see our
complete platform.
Please attend Community Advisory Committee and city council
meetings and support an alternative
which seeks 80% parks & open space. And please contact the City
to strengthen your support.
Write/Fax/E-mail:
Concord City Council (Bill
Shinn, Mayor;
Helen M. Allen, Vice
Mayor; Laura Hoffmeister, Guy Bjerke,
Mark Peterson (Council
members)): City of Concord, 1950 Parkside Dr., Concord, CA
94519, Fax: (925) 671-3375,
citycouncil@ci.concord.ca.us. If you are a resident of
Concord, be sure to include that in your letter or email. |
