[CPEO-IRF] Oceana (VA) - Who's encroaching upon whom?

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Hundreds of homes predate Oceana or Navy development guides

By JON W. GLASS AND DAVID GULLIVER
The Virginian-Pilot
October 1, 2005


VIRGINIA BEACH - An analysis of city property records confirms what many 
residents and city officials have long argued: Hundreds of homes in the 
highest-risk areas around Oceana Naval Air Station were built before it 
became an air base and before Navy flight patterns exposed some 
neighborhoods to potential jet crashes.

The findings, critics said, raise questions about the fairness of the 
Defense Base Realignment and Closure Commission’s ultimatum that the 
city and state must condemn and buy homes and businesses in Accident 
Potential Zone 1 around Oceana, or lose the base’s jets.

A new city report also shows that more than 3,400 houses, apartments, 
duplexes and mobile homes lie in APZ-1 – nearly twice as many as the 
1,800 the city initially estimated.

...

For the entire article, see
http://home.hamptonroads.com/stories/story.cfm?story=93022&ran=168159&tref=po


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Lenny Siegel
Director, Center for Public Environmental Oversight
c/o PSC, 278-A Hope St., Mountain View, CA 94041
Voice: 650/961-8918 or 650/969-1545
Fax: 650/961-8918
http://www.cpeo.org
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