[CPEO-MEF] ENCROACHMENT: Whitehouse Field buffer, Jacksonville, FL

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

City, Navy team to safeguard airfield

By TIMOTHY J. GIBBONS,
Florida Times-Union
October 22, 2008

Hoping to stop development around a Westside airfield where Navy pilots 
practice carrier landings, Jacksonville and the Navy plan to team up to 
buy either land or development rights from nearby property owners, 
although some residents say those plans are unlikely to help many of them.

The city recently won a $200,000 grant from the governor's office that 
it will use to kick off the project, which is meant to prevent 
encroachment and keep 2,500-acre Whitehouse Field in operation.

That money, said Harrison Conyers, who's managing the grant for the city 
Military Affairs, Veterans and Disabled Services, will be combined with 
money from the Navy and used either to buy land outright or buy what 
amounts to a perpetual easement, allowing the owner to keep the land but 
forbidding development on it.

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For the entire article, see
http://www.jacksonville.com/tu-online/stories/102208/met_346957716.shtml

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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
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