[CPEO-IRF] Oceana (VA) neighbors worry

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Neighbors Of Naval Air Station Oceana Worry About Losing Homes

By SUE LINDSEY
Associated Press
WAVY-TV 10 (Portsmouth, VA)
September 18, 2005

(AP) - Sam Reid and his family have a century-old white house next door 
to his father-in-law amid the towering oaks in Oceana Gardens. His son 
lives across the street, and two doors down a 29-year-old lives in the 
house his great-grandfather built.

The houses of Oceana Gardens and other neighborhoods that skirt Oceana 
Naval Air Station in Virginia Beach are not new, not large and not fancy 
-- Reid estimates the average going price lately at no more than $200,000.

But the residents of these homes, which are among thousands that a 
federal base-closing commission wants condemned because they lie next to 
the Navy airfield, don't measure their value only in dollars. The 
closeness of family and lifelong friendships, they say, makes them 
priceless.

...

For the entire article, see
http://www.wavy.com/Global/story.asp?S=3865232&nav=23ii


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Lenny Siegel
Director, Center for Public Environmental Oversight
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