2006 CPEO Military List Archive

From: Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>
Date: 8 Feb 2006 04:33:30 -0000
Reply: cpeo-military
Subject: [CPEO-MEF] Planners approve Lakehurst-area (NJ) development
 
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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For the entire article, see
http://www.app.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20060207/NEWS/602070307

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