[CPEO-MEF] Laughlin Air Force Base (TX) encroachment

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

City awaits word on land use study grant

By Karen Gleason
Del Rio News-Herald (TX)
December 25, 2006

Jan. 4 is the date city administrators say they will learn whether the 
city will receive federal funding for a study of land use around 
Laughlin Air Force Base.

Del Rio International Airport manager Jack L. Richardson, who also 
serves as the city’s chief grant writer, told members of the city’s 
economic development advisory committee on Dec. 19 that the Department 
of Defense’s Office of Economic Adjustment (OEA) will inform the city 
Jan. 4 if it will pay for most of a Joint Land Use Study (JLUS).

...

Encroaching urban development around Laughlin Air Force Base has come up 
every now and again since the base began operations, but never with more 
fervor than earlier this year in debates over a huge planned community 
called SE Ranch.

...

For the entire article, see
http://www.delrionewsherald.com/story.lasso?ewcd=6d450dca76cd3f63

--


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


_______________________________________________
Military mailing list
Military@list.cpeo.org
http://www.cpeo.org/mailman/listinfo/military