[CPEO-MEF] ENCROACHMENT: Webster Field (MD) zoning proposal

[Lenny Siegel <lennysiegel@gmail.com>]

Protecting Navy’s work at Webster Field

Southern Maryland Newspapers
August 10, 2011

Nearly 35 years ago St. Mary's County adopted special zoning rules  
around Patuxent River Naval Air Station. They have been altered in  
the years since, and because they limit what can be built under the  
flight paths of the Navy base they have at times been controversial.

But those zoning rules have also been crucial, Navy and community  
leaders say, in protecting the mission at Pax River, and thus in  
protecting the economic vitality of the Lexington Park area, and  
indeed the entire county.

Now St. Mary's County government is talking about establishing  
special zoning it's called an AICUZ, for Air Installation Compatible  
Use Zone around Webster Field in St. Inigoes as well. County  
officials have talked about it before, since 1978 in fact, but have  
never followed through.

There has been no pressing need. The Navy's Webster Field facility is  
in a rural area, where there has been little large-scale development,  
and where little has been proposed.

...

For the entire article, see
http://www.somdnews.com/article/20110810/OPINION/708109894/-1/ 
protecting-navy-s-work-at-webster-field&template=southernMaryland

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Lenny Siegel
Executive Director, Center for Public Environmental Oversight
a project of the Pacific Studies Center
278-A Hope Street, Mountain View, CA 94041
Voice: 650-961-8918 or 650-969-1545
Fax: 650-961-8918
<lsiegel@cpeo.org>
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