[CPEO-MEF] Oceana Naval Air Station (VA)

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Virginia feels OLF, BRAC pain

By BILL SANDIFER
Washington Daily News (NC)
March 14, 2005

The shoe is on the other foot, it seems.

Businesses and homeowners face shutdown and relocation. Navy officials 
send registered letters bearing unwelcome news. Navy real estate 
contractors eye homes and businesses of willing sellers.

It sounds like what Washington County residents and landowners have had 
to deal with since the Navy announced intentions to buy 33,000 acres of 
property to build an outlying landing field.

But the setting this time is Virginia, specifically communities adjacent 
to Naval Air Station Oceana and associated facilities. Nearly two 
decades of failing to deal with sprawling development -- by both city 
fathers and the Navy -- has landed both in hot water.

...

For the entire article, see
http://www.wdnweb.com/articles/2005/03/13/news/news01.txt

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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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