[CPEO-MEF] Seymour Johnson Air Force Base (NC) buffer

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Case Farms could get OK to expand

By Andrew Bell
Goldsboro News-Argus (NC)
September 7, 2006

A zoning dilemma that has hindered Case Farms from expanding its 
processing plant operation might have been solved by a rezoning being 
considered by the Wayne County Board of Commissioners.

The company had purchased a tract of land adjacent to its plant on Pecan 
Road several years ago in the hope of expanding. But the land is in the 
Accident Potential Zone that surrounds Seymour Johnson Air Force Base.

Development in the zone is limited. County and Goldsboro officials have 
worked for years to prevent too much development near the base, fearing 
it could cause the Air Force to reconsider Seymour Johnson as a viable 
location for a base. Encroachment around military installations is a 
major factor in Pentagon decisions about which bases to maintain, expand 
or close.

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For the entire article, see
http://www.newsargus.com/news/archives/2006/09/07/case_farms_could_get_ok_to_expand/index.shtml

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Lenny Siegel
Director, Center for Public Environmental Oversight
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