Cherry Point Marine Corps Air Station zoning

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

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Craven approves zoning to protect MCAS runways

Sue Book
New Bern  (NC) Sun Journal
April 07, 2004

Two of the eight runways at Cherry Point were protected for future use
with zoning, approved Monday by Craven County commissioners, that will
keep development from encroaching on needed airspace.

It was a move two years in deliberation and came over strong objection
from some of the 59 property owners in the N.C. 101 area that lies in
the flyover and accident potential zones of Marine Corps Air Station
Cherry Point.

Harlowe area landowners, whose use of their property could be restricted
by the new zoning, were out in numbers for a 7:30 p.m. public hearing.
The hearing preceded the action -- which some, including Greenville
Mayor Ed Carter and former area principal Alvin West, said was already a
done deal -- and continued for several hours.

Some already were miffed by the early 1940s buyout of their homesteads
to build the base. Others recalled the 1989 military purchase of air
easements or property from their neighbors. They want to be paid for the
diminished potential use of their property.

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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
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