[CPEO-MEF] ENCROACHMENT: Fort Drum (NY) buffer zone

[Lenny Siegel <lennysiegel@gmail.com>]

Army seeks buffer zone around Fort Drum
ACUB PROGRAM: Landowners would eschew development

By SARAH M. RIVETTE
WATERTOWN DAILY TIMES (NY)
JULY 17, 2008

A new Army program has come to the north country and could mean good 
things for farmers and landowners who don't want to get priced out by 
developers.

"Basically we allow them to participate in the real estate market, but 
keep their land," said Betty J. Jones, who works in the Plans, Analysis 
and Integration Office on post and is the liaison for the Army 
Compatible Use Buffer program.

The program would allow landowners to keep their land, but would stop 
them from selling it for development purposes. This would, in effect, 
maintain the "buffer zone" around the post and allow residents and 
landowners to continue using their land. The program is a solution to 
encroachment issues that other military installations have faced, and 
according to Mrs. Jones, it is the perfect time for the program to start 
at Drum because there are now no large issues of encroachment.

...

For the entire article, see
http://www.watertowndailytimes.com/article/20080717/NEWS03/948563985/Army+seeks+buffer+zone+around+Fort+Drum

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Lenny Siegel
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