[CPEO-MEF] ENCROACHMENT - Davis-Monthan AFB, Tucson, Arizona

[Lenny Siegel <lennysiegel@gmail.com>]

South on Craycroft: Life at D-M
Jim Fisher: With the baby who walks, Dad is pooped at meeting

Opinion by Jim Fisher
Arizona Star
February 24, 2008

My efforts to cover this month's meeting of the Military Community 
Relations Committee Wednesday night were not so well-thought-out.

...

When it was recently announced that developer Westcor had plans for land 
southeast of the base for large-scale residential and commercial 
development, questions arose about encroachment. These came from the 
media and citizenry alike.

Would the base be dealing with the same overflight issues from the 
southeast that have been so problematic from the northwest? Our answer 
to the media was that because of new land-use laws in place and the 
vigorous dialogue with the community, this situation to the southeast 
would not develop the same way, and these problems would be alleviated.
The city and the county seemed to be taking steps to ensure this was, in 
fact, the case.

Dissenting voices, however, were not interested in anything beyond 
getting flights over Midtown to cease. Justifications and the proposed 
solutions seemed unrealistic.

...

For the entire column, see
http://www.azstarnet.com/metro/226595

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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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