[CPEO-MEF] Naval Air Station Fort Worth (TX) Joint Land Use Study

[Lenny Siegel <lennysiegel@gmail.com>]

New committee to follow up on zoning restrictions near base


By CHRIS VAUGHN
Forth Worth Star-Telegram (TX)
December 18, 2007

The elected officials from western Tarrant County who have proposed new 
regulations to ease encroachment around Naval Air Station Fort Worth are 
now busy figuring out how to implement them.

In September, the Joint Land Use Study committee issued recommendations 
that could require stronger building codes, prohibitions on new 
residential development in some tracts and voluntary land acquisitions 
in high-risk crash areas.

The push for new regulations grew out of concern that residential and 
commercial development around the military installation is getting too 
close and too dense, creating a safety hazard and increasing the 
potential for noise complaints.

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For the entire article, see
http://www.star-telegram.com/metro_news/story/366105.html

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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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