[CPEO-MEF] Malmstrom Air Force Base (MT) - potential encroachment

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

County approves growth policy

By SONJA LEE
Great Falls Tribune (MT)
September 20, 2006

A new growth policy will guide development in Cascade County and a 
last-minute amendment puts the brakes on potential development 
encroaching on a closed runway at Malmstrom Air Force Base.

Such development could hurt the chances of a new flying mission.

Cascade County Commissioners on Tuesday approved the 2006 Growth Policy. 
The policy sets out the tools the county has to protect the environment 
and farmland and to promote development.

Commissioner Joe Briggs amended the policy to prohibit development in 
military runway accident potential zones. The zones are designated at 
both ends of runways, which support or could support military fixed wing 
operations. Briggs' amendment notes, "the runway at MAFB is one of the 
community's largest untapped resources."

For the entre article, see
http://www.greatfallstribune.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20060920/NEWS01/609200306/1002

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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
<lsiegel@cpeo.org>
http://www.cpeo.org


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