[CPEO-MEF] ENCROACHMENT: Yuma Marine Corps Air Station (AZ) and the Estancia development

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Would MCAS feel impact of development?

Editorial
Yuma Sun (AZ)
December 22, 2009

It is possible that city of Yuma voters may eventually vote on whether 
to allow the development of a large planned community on the south mesa.

Opponents of the development, known as Estancia, have turned in 
petitions to overturn Yuma City Council approval of a land use change 
for the 3,700 acre project that backers say won't actually materialize 
for many years in the future.

Various objections have been raised to the project, including concerns 
about destruction of the rural lifestyle in the area and possible 
infrastructure costs to taxpayers, but the key argument opponents have 
expressed is that it would endanger Marine Corps Air Station Yuma.

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For the entire editorial, see
http://www.yumasun.com/opinion/development-55062-vote-marine.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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