[CPEO-MEF] BUFFER ZONES: "conservation easement to protect land near Shaw Air Force Base.

[Lenny Siegel <LSiegel@cpeo.org>]

Have you ever wondered why land near Shaw Air Force Base isn't development? Here's why.
Sumter City Council unanimously passed Ordinance 2842 on Tuesday to give Congaree Land Trust a conservation easement to protect land near Shaw Air Force Base.

By Sam Perez
WLTX News 19 (Columbia, SC)
January 2, 2024


SUMTER, S.C. — Protecting and conserving land near Shaw Air Force Base is the goal behind a new ordinance. Sumter City Council passed the conservation easement in its final reading on Tuesday.

“It is integral to the community,” Tim Davis shared about the base.
Along with his wife Sonja, Davis first moved to Sumter in August 2002 when the now-retired couple was transferred to Shaw Air Force Base from Florida.

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As Sumter and the base continue to grow, Sumter City Council is working to protect 768 acres of land near Shaw Air Force Base known as Carter Farm on Frierson Road from private development encroachment. 

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For the entire article, see
https://www.wltx.com/article/news/local/street-squad/sumter/sumter-ordinance-protect-shaw-air-force-base-private-development-encroachment/101-4b4f6245-d620-4376-a8af-9e5020dd5382

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Lenny Siegel
Executive Director
Center for Public Environmental Oversight
A project of the Pacific Studies Center
LSiegel@cpeo.org
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Author: DISTURBING THE WAR: The Inside Story of the Movement to Get Stanford University out of Southeast Asia - 1965–1975 (See http://a3mreunion.org)

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