[CPEO-MEF] Luke Air Force Base (AZ) land swap

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Land swap proposed for Luke AFB

Mike Sunnucks
Phoenix Business Journal
July 29, 2005

A land swap deal to trade federally owned parcels in the far West Valley 
for private property next to Luke Air Force Base soon will be put 
forward in Washington and could involve as many as 6,000 acres.

Arizona Sen. John McCain and Glendale Congressman Trent Franks are 
putting together a land exchange plan that would swap parcels near Luke 
for other valuable West Valley real estate away from the military 
installation.

The McCain-Franks plan will be introduced soon in Washington, D.C., in 
hopes of final approval from Congress and the U.S. Bureau of Land 
Management next year.

Details of the land swap are being worked out, but it will entail 
trading federally owned land near the planned Loop 303 freeway, the 
White Tank Mountains and possibly Lake Pleasant in the West Valley for 
private land owned by developers near Luke.

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For the entire article, see
http://www.bizjournals.com/phoenix/stories/2005/08/01/story1.html


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