[CPEO-MEF] Whidbey Island Naval Air Station (WA) buffer

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

City settles APZ issue


By Jessie Stensland
Whidbey News-Times
March 29, 2006

The city of Oak Harbor now has tighter restrictions aimed at preventing 
encroachment or intrusive development around Whidbey Island Naval Air 
Station.

Last week, the City Council unanimously passed an ordinance that 
restricts land use on property within "accident potential zones" off the 
end of a runway at the Navy base, as well as an adjacent buffer zone.
Mayor Patty Cohen said she recently returned from Washington, D.C., 
where she shared the city's actions to prevent base encroachment with 
officials from other military communities, as well as the Pentagon. She 
said they were impressed.

"They had never heard of anything like this before," she said. "{This 
was a first.?

Cohen led the way in development of the new zoning restriction after the 
Navy released a map last fall that shows about 60 acres on the north end 
of the city falls within accident potential zones, or APZs, which are 
areas where plane accidents are more likely to occur.

...

For the entire article, see
http://www.whidbeynewstimes.com/portals-code/list.cgi?paper=84&cat=23&id=618100&more=

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Lenny Siegel
Director, Center for Public Environmental Oversight
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