[CPEO-MEF] Seymour Johnson AFB (NC) encroachment

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Case gets OK to eye plans for expansion

By Andrew Bell
Goldsboro News Argus (NC)
March 7, 2007

Almost every detail has been worked out so that Case Farms can begin 
expanding its processing plant south of Goldsboro, following a decision 
by Goldsboro City Council Monday night.

Council members unanimously approved relinquishing the city's planning 
and zoning authority over a 2.98-acre tract of land the city owns on the 
northwest side of Pecan Road between Arrington Bridge and Mitchell roads.

...

Case Farms, which employs about 900 people and processes about 140,000 
birds a day, had requested that its property be rezoned heavy industry 
by Wayne County planners so the company could begin building the 
additional processing lines. But the property is in the southern end of 
Seymour Johnson Air Force Base's accident potential zone. Although the 
base does allow some development in those zones, too much is considered 
encroachment and could lead military officials to reconsider the base's 
mission.

...

For the entire article, see
http://www.newsargus.com/news/archives/2007/03/07/case_gets_ok_to_eye_plans_for_expansion/index.shtml

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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>
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