Expanded Governors' Association encroachment study

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

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National Governors Association Center for Best Practices 
Issue Brief
Environment, Energy, and Natural Resources

State Strategies to Address Encroachment at Military Installations
July 2004

Across the nation, military installations are threatened by civilian
encroachment. Incompatible residential and commercial development
patterns surrounding military bases can jeopardize an installation's
mission. When development increases near and around military bases,
land-use conflicts arise between mission activities and local
communities. Encroachment can threaten public safety and livability
because people located near bases are potentially exposed to artillery
fire, aircraft noise, dust, and even accidents. Ultimately, bases could
close if encroachment restricts training and operational missions.

Military installations are often critical to state economies generating
thousands of jobs and billions of dollars in economic activity and tax
revenue. To protect the missions of military installations and the
health of the economies that rely on them, states and localities are
taking steps to address encroachment. They include:
* drafting state legislation that requires compatible land use;
* enacting local zoning, planning, and noise requirements;
* using existing statutory authority to designate the land surrounding
military installations as areas
* critical state concern;
* acquiring property surrounding military installations; and
* creating state military advisory bodies.

There is no universal approach to prevent encroachment. The aim is not
to stop growth, but to ensure that land uses in specified areas are
compatible with the scope of military activities at a particular base.
To achieve this, states have approached land-use issues for military
bases in ways that best fit state and local views about land use,
economic development, and private property rights.

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Online version of this issue brief can be accessed at:
http://www.nga.org/cda/files/032403MILITARY.PDF

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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
<lsiegel@cpeo.org>
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