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**Frank ess**

jgar the jorrible wrote:
> On Jun 7, 3:40 pm, "Frank ess" > wrote:
>> Patrick Scheible wrote:
>>> SeaWoe > writes:
>>
>>>> How about the Marines giving the parts of Pendleton back to the
>>>> state, which than sells it to developrers. with the money
>>>> paying off the state debt. Thde Marines can then have the land
>>>> along the Mexican border as far as AZ for desert trauning?
>>>> (Amphib stuff done on the Silver Strand.)
>>
>>> Giving? In my experience, unused military bases are sold to the
>>> state or local governments at or near current market value. That's
>>> true even if the land was given to the military in the first
>>> place.
>>
>>> -- Patrick
>>
>> You'll need to be careful what kind of arrangement you make in San
>> Diego County: when the Naval Training Station in Loma Portal was
>> de-mobbed, the City of San Diego sort of non-auctioned the use, and
>> some developers got a super sweetheart deal on rights. I reckon
>> that if it had involved "fair market value" the City wouldn't be
>> in so much debt, and firefighters would be on full duty, all
>> stations would be manned at all times, and other such cutbacks
>> wouldn't be necessary.
>>
>> I've said befo Camp Pendleton should become the Southern
>> California International Airport, current airports should become
>> regional transportation centers and parking facilities for the
>> "bullet" trains running among them and the SCIA.
>>
>> --
>> Frank ess
>
> For sure. But of course, base closures are periodic and strongly
> fought over. How about trading coastal Pendleton for Salton Sea?
> They could fix the damn thing, fix the damn developments that have
> died because the sea is going back to what it was before it was
> mistakenly created could come back, etc...
>
> Still don't know how they could find old ordnance, they're never as
> good at it as 11 year old kids.
>
> Area near Superstition mountains would be a great place for a
> racetrack.
>
> jg

Someone is working his way out that direction:
http://www.chuckwallavalleyraceway.com/