<html><head><DEFANGED_style type='text/css' p { margin: 0; }></DEFANGED_style></head><body><DEFANGED_div style='font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; color: #000000'><DEFANGED_style p { margin: 0; }></DEFANGED_style><DEFANGED_div style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><DEFANGED_style p { margin: 0; }></DEFANGED_style><DEFANGED_div style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><p DEFANGED_style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;" class="MsoNormal">TRCA Friends & Neighbors:</p>
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<p DEFANGED_style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;" class="MsoNormal">The
Department of Defense's Base Realignment and Closure (BRAC) relocation
proposal for Mark Center
is tentatively scheduled to be heard by the National Capital Planning
Commission (NCPC) on February 5, 2009, beginning at 12:30 pm. The NCPC is
the federal government's agency that develops planning policies and
makes
decisions that protect and enhance federal lands and buildings in the
national capital region.<br>
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The City is in the process of preparing formal, written correspondence
for submission to the NCPC regarding the BRAC proposal, and will have
representatives at the February meeting. Members of the public are
encouraged to attend and should notify NCPC staff by January 28th of
their intention to address the Commission. <b>Individual
speakers will have 3 minute limits; organizational representatives will have 5
minutes to speak. </b><DEFANGED_span style="">The tentative agenda is available on-line via the NCPC web page (<DEFANGED_span class="Object" id="OBJ_PREFIX_DWT33"><a href="http://www.ncpc.gov/" target="_blank">www.ncpc.gov</a></DEFANGED_span>). The
meeting will be held at 401 9th
Street, NW, Suite 500 (North Lobby),</DEFANGED_span> Washington, DC. </p>
<br DEFANGED_style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><DEFANGED_span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">TRCA
will send a representative to this meeting and welcomes input from
anyone in our community for a possible consolidated statement of
interests or concerns. Feel free to email submissions to </DEFANGED_span><DEFANGED_span class="Object" id="OBJ_PREFIX_DWT136"><DEFANGED_span class="Object" id="OBJ_PREFIX_DWT137">President@taylorrunalexandria.com</DEFANGED_span></DEFANGED_span>. <br><br>Your Executive Committee wishes
you the very best in this new year, and we look forward to seeing you at
upcoming TRCA events! Best--<br>--<br>Chad Sarchio<br>President, TRCA<br><br>--<br>Chad Sarchio<br></DEFANGED_div></DEFANGED_div></DEFANGED_div></body></html>