[CPEO-MEF] Davis-Monthan AFB (AZ) and Prop 207

[lsiegel@np.craigslist.org]

Restricting Restrictions

Proposition 207 could limit county efforts to suppress development around
Davis-Monthan

By DAVE DEVINE
Tucson Weekly (AZ)
NOVEMBER 30, 2006

When almost two-thirds of Arizona voters approved Proposition 207 on Nov.
7, they may have thought they were protecting private property from
unwarranted government confiscation. But Pima County Supervisor Ramón
Valadez draws a different conclusion.

"The voters have punished communities for trying to prevent encroachment,"
Valadez says of more stringent land-use regulations proposed near
Davis-Monthan Air Force Base. That decision, Valadez warns, "has put our
military base at risk."

After a joint land-use study looked at property around D-M a few years
ago, it made several recommendations to protect the base and the jobs it
provides Tucson. Among other ideas, the report suggested severely limiting
the future land uses which could be established off either end of the
base's runway.

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For the entire article, see
http://www.tucsonweekly.com/gbase/Currents/Content?oid=oid:89765

-- 
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
http://www.cpeo.org


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