[CPEO-MEF] ENCROACHMENT - Whidbey Island (WA) crash zone

[Lenny Siegel <lennysiegel@gmail.com>]

Neighbors protest Navy crash zone ordinance

By Paul Boring
Whidbey News-Times  (WA)
March 12, 2008

A growing cadre of incensed landowners taking their collective 
frustration to the grass has been camped out on the corner of Highway 20 
and Frostad Road protesting the Navy’s expanded “accident potential 
zone” and a newly-passed county ordinance that restricts some land uses 
within higher risk areas.

A number of the residents who will be most affected by the ordinance 
have been among the protesters garnering waves from passing vehicles 
quickly reading the pithy, large white sign.

“We were out there waving for two hours Sunday,” said Rebecca Spraitzar, 
who owns two parcels of land, one of which is located entirely within 
APZ1. “We got three phone calls from people who were not aware of the 
zoning and lots of honks and waves.”

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For the entire article, see
http://www.whidbeynewstimes.com/portals-code/list.cgi?paper=84&cat=23&id=1173241&more=0

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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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