[CPEO-IRF] Cecil Field (FL) "encroachment"

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

[The 2005 BRAC Commission broke new legal ground in deciding to move 
jets from Virginia to Florida IF homes are not removed from certain 
areas near the Ocean Naval Air Station, in Virginia Beach. Now it turns 
out that Cecil Field (Jacksonville, Florida) has similar problems. I 
don't know whether the BRAC process has the flexibility that will allow 
the Navy to consider the relative risks and benefits of these two and 
other locations. - LS]


Population grows in Cecil's crash zone

By DAVID DECAMP
The Times-Union (Jacksonville, FL)
October 4, 2005


Jacksonville Mayor John Peyton and Florida's advocates to reopen Cecil 
Field said no one lived in crash zones near the former Navy base.

No people. Just pine trees.

Peyton and retired Adm. Robert Natter, the state lobbyist, also helped 
convince a federal commission that Jacksonville had kept using the same 
building restrictions near Cecil.

They were wrong.

In fact, up to 925 housing units -- including newer homes in Bent Creek 
and older houses off Nathan Hale Road -- sit in accident-potential 
zones, city officials said after a Times-Union review of property records.

...

For the entire article, see
http://www.jacksonville.com/tu-online/stories/100405/met_19941313.shtml


--
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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