[CPEO-MEF] Ft. Carson (CO) encroachment

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Colorado Springs approves buffer near Fort Carson

By PETER ROPER
THE PUEBLO CHIEFTAIN (CO)
January 30, 2006

Wherever there are military bases, there are usually complaints from 
neighbors about the noise of warfare training - screaming jet engines, 
the heavy concussion of artillery fire, the steady pop of small arms 
gunnery ranges.

Sometimes those complaints lead to portions of a military installation 
being closed and that's what Fort Carson and Colorado Springs officials 
have feared in recent years as Army officials have looked at the 
Mountain Post as an increasingly important training area, given its 
200,000 acres of open terrain, plus another 250,000 acres in Pinon Canyon.

So how to protect Fort Carson from urban encroachment?

This month, the Greater Colorado Springs Economic Development Corp. is 
closing a landmark deal to help build a 1.5-mile wide buffer zone all 
around the post to keep residential housing, and future complaints, away 
from the boundary.

...

For the entire article, see
http://www.chieftain.com/metro/1138604791/1

--
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
http://www.cpeo.org


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