2006 CPEO Military List Archive

From: Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>
Date: 30 Mar 2006 03:10:55 -0000
Reply: cpeo-military
Subject: [CPEO-MEF] Whidbey Island Naval Air Station (WA) buffer
 
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.

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

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