[CPEO-MEF] Building near Pinecastle Range (FL)

[Lenny Siegel <lennysiegel@gmail.com>]

Searching for bombs could be a city rule
Orlando considers the safety of building near the old Pinecastle range.

Mark Schlueb
Orlando Sentinel (FL)
October 30, 2007


Orlando planners are accustomed to dealing with wetlands, roads and 
other development issues, but figuring out what to do about 60-year-old 
bombs and rockets may take a few months.

Mayor Buddy Dyer and city commissioners decided Monday that it's time to 
come up with development rules for the land that used to be part of the 
World War II-era Pinecastle Jeep Bombing Range.

Odyssey Middle School and some homes in the Vista Lakes and Tivoli 
Gardens neighborhoods were built atop the former 12,483-acre practice 
range before developers and local officials knew it existed.



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For the entire article, see
http://www.orlandosentinel.com/news/local/orl-bomb3007oct30,0,3388282.story

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Lenny Siegel
Executive Director, Center for Public Environmental Oversight
a project of the Pacific Studies Center
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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