[CPEO-MEF] ENCROACHMENT: Malmstrom Air Force Base (MT) vote

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

What's next for property near runway?

By PETER JOHNSON
Great Falls Tribune (MT)
November 7, 2008

Cascade County voters overwhelmingly rejected a bond issue Tuesday to 
spend $3.2 million — or a tax increase of $9 a year on a home assessed 
for tax purposes of $100,000 — to protect future use of the dormant 
Malmstrom Air Force Base runway.

Supporters of the bond issue are shaking their heads at the magnitude of 
the 63 percent to 37 percent defeat and aren't sure what, if anything, 
to do next.

The landowner and developers of a proposed upscale housing development 
southeast of town did not return phone calls seeking comment on whether 
they will move forward with the project, given the current economic climate.

...

For the entire article, see
http://www.greatfallstribune.com/article/20081107/NEWS01/811070318

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