2008 CPEO Military List Archive

From: Lenny Siegel <lennysiegel@gmail.com>
Date: Sun, 3 Aug 2008 23:12:43 -0700 (PDT)
Reply: cpeo-military
Subject: [CPEO-MEF] ENCROACHMENT: Joint Base McGuire-Dix-Lakehurst (NJ) buffers
 
Towns around joint base seek a say in its growth
Jobs and development are at issue as an Army-Navy-Air Force complex takes shape in South Jersey.

By Edward Colimore
Philadelphia Inquirer (PA)
August 3, 2008

Each side has its needs: The military wants its space. The towns want to cash in.

The nation's only contiguous Army-Navy-Air Force megabase is seeking land buffers around its 60 square miles in Burlington and Ocean Counties. Military leaders don't want homes or schools next to airfields.

The 10 surrounding towns, meanwhile, would like help preserving land and coordinating business development. Local leaders don't want to see the restaurants and shops in their communities duplicated on Joint Base McGuire-Dix-Lakehurst.

...

For the entire article, see
http://www.philly.com/inquirer/local/nj/20080803_Towns_around_joint_base_seek_a_say_in_its_growth.html

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