[CPEO-MEF] Wal-Mart near Travis Air Force Base (CA)

[Lenny Siegel <lennysiegel@gmail.com>]

Vote Against Wal-Mart Gets Airport Commission Sacked in Solano County

Judyth Piazza
Folsom News Blaze (CA)
January 24, 2008

The Solano County Board of Supervisors Tuesday succeeded over objections 
of community groups in replacing one member of the independent Solano 
County Airport Land Use Commission which voted to kill a Wal-Mart 
project in Suisun last November because of safety concerns, but backed 
off adopting a new County ordinance that would have effectively changed 
the composition and eliminated the term protections for SCALUC commissioners

...

The Commission angered Suisun local and county officials by voting 5-2 
in November to reject the 230,000 Wal-Mart Supercenter development 
because it was in a "safety buffer zone" near Travis Air Force Base and 
could threaten the safety of shoppers and residents.

...

The SCALUC was authorized by the California State legislature in 2002, 
to develop and review the compatibility of all development in the 
encroachment areas ("safety buffer zones") of Travis AFB, largest 
area-employer, with a primary responsibility to oversee development 
consistent with their airbase plan and to protect the base from closure. 
According to a 2004 UC Berkeley study authorized by the State of 
California, encroachment is the number one reason for military base 
closure in the U.S.

...

For the entire article, see
http://newsblaze.com/story/20080124094256tsop.nb/newsblaze/TOPSTORY/Top-Stories.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>
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