[CPEO-MEF] Fairchild Air Force Base (WA) encroachment

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Base fears encroachment
Officials urge county to bar further residential development near Fairchild

Alison Boggs
Spokane Spokesman Review (WA)
November 1, 2006

A stream of military and aviation officials lined up last week to urge 
Spokane County to adopt regulations that would prevent additional 
residential development around Fairchild Air Force Base and Spokane 
International Airport.

Residential development can encroach upon airfields, both in noise 
complaints from homeowners and with safety issues, when people are 
living near the area where plane crashes are most likely to occur. 
Proponents of Fairchild cite "encroachment" as the No. 1 reason why air 
force bases nationwide get shut down during periodic federal evaluations.

But the problem of rising residential development around Fairchild is 
partially one of the county's own making.

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For the entire article, see
http://www.spokesmanreview.com/local/story.asp?ID=157474

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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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