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[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Don't let unbridled growth kill Fallon's Golden Goose

Editorial
Lahontan Valley News
June 30, 2005

By now it should be obvious that Fallon is undergoing a land rush, as
developer after developer comes forward with plans for another subdivision.

In the past six months alone, we have reported on plans for six new
subdivisions proposing to construct upward of 1,000 new homes in and
around Fallon.

In some respects this unbridled growth is a welcome change from the days
not too long ago when the real estate market was in a slump, exacerbated
by widespread coverage of Fallon's leukemia cluster and nervousness over
elevated levels of arsenic in the groundwater. Fallon was overdue for
some prosperity.

Now with a real estate boom at hand and the local building trades at
full employment it is time to at least consider the downside to all this growth.

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For the entire editorial, see
http://www.lahontanvalleynews.com/article/20050630/Opinion/106300019

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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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