[CPEO-MEF] Ft. Rucker (AL) encroachment

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Too close for comfort?

Peggy Ussery
The Dothan Eagle
March 17, 2007


In 1955, Fort Rucker didn't have as many civilian neighbors to worry about.

Times change. Towns and cities have grown toward the military post. 
Houses continue to crop up around stagefields and airfields located away 
from the main post.

"It's sort of a victim of its own success," said Scott Farmer, community 
development director for the Southeast Alabama Regional Planning Commission.

As residential development encroaches upon the Army installation's air 
space, not to mention right up to its physical boundaries, Fort Rucker 
could be put at risk. Ozark Mayor Bob Bunting said there's one thing 
everyone in southeast Alabama can agree on - Fort Rucker is a 
$1.2-billion economic engine the area cannot afford to lose.

...

For the entire article, see
http://www.dothaneagle.com/servlet/Satellite?pagename=DEA%2FMGArticle%2FDEA_BasicArticle&c=MGArticle&cid=1173350269959&path=!news!localnews
or http://www.ledger-enquirer.com/mld/ledgerenquirer/news/local/16935120.htm

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Lenny Siegel
Director, Center for Public Environmental Oversight
c/o PSC, 278-A Hope St., Mountain View, CA 94041
Voice: 650/961-8918 or 650/969-1545
Fax: 650/961-8918
<lsiegel@cpeo.org>
http://www.cpeo.org


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