[CPEO-MEF] Residential growth near Lakehurst Naval Air Engineering Station )NJ)

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

AIM: To slow growth near Lakehurst station

CONCERN: Residential areas coming too close
Base backers fighting rezoning

BY KIRK MOORE
Asbury Park Press (NJ)
February 6, 2006

MANCHESTER - Civilian supporters of Lakehurst Naval Air Engineering
Station say they will ask township officials to postpone a rezoning
request that could clear the way for an additional 400 homes east of the base.

The group Friends of Navy Lakehurst this weekend said its members will
ask for the postponement at tonight's Planning Board meeting, to gain
time for an analysis of how the development could affect the base and
its more than 3,000 jobs.

Group chairman Emil Kaunitz said base supporters are worried about the
future implications of residential growth close to the 7,400-acre Navy
facility, which manufactures and tests aircraft launch and recovery
equipment and hosts a number of other military and federal missions.

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For the entire article, see
http://www.app.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20060206/NEWS02/602060358/1070

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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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