[CPEO-MEF] ENCROACHMENT: "Nearing success on Oceana [Naval Air Station, VA] development"

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Nearing success on Oceana development

Editorial
Virginian-Pilot
August 14, 2015

Ten years ago, a federal base-closing commission threatened to shutter Oceana Naval Air Station unless the state, Virginia Beach and Chesapeake bought and tore down homes, shopping centers and other development around the base.

Commissioners worried about the likelihood of a jet crash at Lynnhaven Mall or a neighborhood or school because development had become so dense. Pilots practicing carrier landings found it  impossible to simulate nighttime landings at sea because of ambient light.

Virginia Beach had ignored the Navy for years, allowing new houses and businesses to be built too close to the base, and those sins were about to cost the region 12,000 jobs — enough to plunge the city into a 15-year recession.

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For the entire editorial, see
http://hamptonroads.com/2015/08/nearing-success-oceana-development

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Lenny Siegel
Executive Director, Center for Public Environmental Oversight
a project of the Pacific Studies Center
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