[CPEO-MEF] ENCROACHMENT: Ft. Worth and the Texas ballot measure

[Lenny Siegel <lennysiegel@gmail.com>]

Proposition 1 on Texas ballot would let cities buy land around military 
bases


By CHRIS VAUGHN
Fort Worth Star-Telegram (TX)
October 11, 2009


All over the state, development continues to scooch up against military 
bases.

That development - big-ticket houses, apartment complexes, wind turbines 
and more - can endanger the military's training missions and flying 
patterns, and in the view of some government officials, make it more 
likely that a base will be closed or shrunk because of encroachment.

...

Proposition 1 on the Nov. 3 ballot of state constitutional amendments 
would provide a funding mechanism for local governments to buy property 
close to military bases to act as a no-development-allowed buffer zone.

Under the amendment, cities or counties could sell bonds or use tax 
increment financing to pay for the land acquisition.

The Naval Air Station Regional Coordination Committee - a consortium of 
officials from the six cities that border Naval Air Station Fort Worth, 
plus Tarrant County and the North Central Texas Council of Governments - 
has endorsed Proposition 1.

...

For the entire article, see
http://www.star-telegram.com/local/story/1678288.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
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