[CPEO-MEF] Luke [AFB, AZ] land-swap plan dies

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Luke land-swap plan dies
Those involved blame McCain's non-support for failure of big trade

David Madrid
The Arizona Republic
June 4, 2006

Land exchanges targeting property around Luke Air Force Base apparently 
are dead, with backers of the plan saying a lack of support from Sen. 
John McCain spelled their death knell.

So, while agricultural landowners in other parts of the Valley are 
selling their parcels at premium prices to housing developers, the 
owners of farmland bordering Luke, where residential development is 
severely restricted, say they are shouldering the burden of keeping the 
base free of further residential encroachment.

The land trades would have financially compensated them for that. The 
trades were one of 27 recommendations created by the Governor's Military 
Facilities Task Force, which spent six months crafting a strategy to 
protect the state's bases from closure.


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For the entire article, see
http://www.azcentral.com/arizonarepublic/local/articles/0604landowners0604.html

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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
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