[CPEO-MEF] ENCROACHMENT - Lemoore Naval Air Station (CA)

[Lenny Siegel <lennysiegel@gmail.com>]

Navy to Lemoore: We need our space
City planners tonight could OK expansion toward base.

By Susie Pakoua Vang
The Fresno Bee
March 9, 2008

LEMOORE -- In 1954, the Navy searched Central California for a place 
where its loud jets could soar without complaints from neighbors.

The Navy found that spot on farmland west of Lemoore, then a small Kings 
County town. Naval Air Station Lemoore was built in 1961 seven miles 
west of downtown and today is home to the West Coast fleet of fighter 
jets with squadrons serving in Iraq and Afghanistan.

...

A long-ago decision to OK a community college campus west of Highway 41 
is now helping shape the proposal, which calls for the 21,000-resident 
city to grow toward the air station.

The Navy opposes that because some homes would be built directly under 
an established flight path. The city's environmental impact report 
projects that about 23% of the 7,000 new residents would be exposed to 
noise levels expected to cause them to be "highly annoyed."

...

For the entire article, see
http://www.fresnobee.com/local/sv/story/451765.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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