[CPEO-MEF] Outlying Landing Field (VA)?

[Lenny Siegel <lennysiegel@gmail.com>]

Developers show interest in latest Navy jet field plan


By Gregory Richards
The Virginian-Pilot
December 11, 2007

It could be a perfect scenario.

The Navy would get the jet landing field it seeks in Virginia or North
Carolina while restricting development on thousands of surrounding
acres. On some of that land, developers would be able to build large
cargo distribution centers, operations typically not affected by the
roar of fighter-jet take-offs and landings.

That combination is being pitched by the Virginia Port Authority and the
Hampton Roads Military and Federal Facilities Alliance, a group seeking
to expand the federal presence in the region.

Jobs and increased tax revenues would result from building
freight-sorting centers on between 2,500 and 5,000 acres, said Frank
Roberts, the alliance’s executive director. That would help make the
idea of a new outlying landing field in Virginia more palatable, he said.


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For the entire article, see
http://hamptonroads.com/2007/12/developers-show-interest-latest-navy-jet-field-plan

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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
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