[CPEO-MEF] Planners approve Lakehurst-area (NJ) development

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Naval base at risk, say Manchester home foes


BY KIRK MOORE
Asbury Park Press (NJ)
February 7, 2006

MANCHESTER — The Planning Board has approved master plan changes that 
would allow a 400-home project on Ridgeway Boulevard, despite objections 
from Lakehurst Naval Air Engineering Station supporters who warned that 
new development could force the base to close and lose its 3,000 jobs.

"If you vote yes tonight, I think you are taking the first step toward 
closing Navy Lakehurst," said Leroy A. Farr, a former base commander who 
now heads the Navy production and testing division that builds aircraft 
carrier equipment.

The board Monday night wound up in a tie vote on a request for a 
four-week delay from Emil Kaunitz, chairman of the Friends of Navy 
Lakehurst group, who asked for the time to seek a compromise. Planning 
Board Attorney Edward F. Liston Jr. told Kaunitz he was too late, 
because Manchester officials are bound by a court settlement reached 
last November that ended 13 years of complicated legal struggle between 
the township and builders.

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