[CPEO-MEF] ENCROACHMENT: New Orleans Naval Air Station (LA) buffer

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Government buys land near Navy runway where subdivision had been planned

By Paul Purpura
New Orleans Times-Picayune
January 4, 2010

Plaquemines Parish government and the Navy will purchase 201 acres just 
north of the Naval Air Station-Joint Reserve Base in Belle Chasse, 
essentially paying a combined $7 million to stop a residential 
subdivision near the end of one of the airbase’s most active runways.

The Trust for Public Land, a national nonprofit land conservation group, 
has acquired the site from the Pivach family in Plaquemines Parish, 
which planned a subdivision for 600 homes at the site off Barriere Road.

The Trust will convey it to the parish by March, giving Plaquemines 
residents “a tremendous park opportunity,” said Chris Deming, the 
project manager who worked on the transaction for the Trust for Public Land.

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For the entire article, see
http://www.nola.com/military/index.ssf/2010/01/government_buys_land_near_navy.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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