[CPEO-IRF] Ft. Monmouth (NJ) zoning

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Lewis: Rezone fort land for what’s there now
Council prez: Zoning would help control future development

BY SUE MORGAN
Long Branch Atlanticville (NJ)
February 16, 2006

Before developers come knocking at Eatontown’s doors with building plans 
for what is now Fort Monmouth, a borough official wants to lay down some 
ground rules.

Although the local U.S. Army base is not scheduled to be shut down by 
the federal government until September 2011, Borough Council President 
Theodore F. Lewis Jr. believes the municipal government should act now 
to safeguard Eatontown’s share of the base property to discourage 
builders who might one day seek to erect development unacceptable to the 
community as a whole.

Presently, Fort Monmouth is zoned as public land, which means that it is 
owned by a government entity, or in this case the federal government, 
according to Peggy Ciok of the borough’s Planning and Zoning Office.

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For the entire article, see
http://atlanticville.gmnews.com/news/2006/0216/Front_Page/001.html

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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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