[CPEO-MEF] ENCROACHMENT: Development near Camp Bullis (TX)

[Lenny Siegel <lennysiegel@gmail.com>]

Camp Bullis needs more than JLUS

Editorial
San Antonio Express-News (TX)
July 18, 2009

The first of two parts.

City Council and Bexar County Commissioners approved a Joint Land Use 
Study last month that will guide development around Camp Bullis. 
Finally, the cavalry had arrived to save the Army, its live-saving 
mission on the 28,000-acre military reservation and the sensitive 
environment of which it is a part.

Or so the public thought.

Last week, the city Planning Commission approved plans to build a 
420-home subdivision 3 miles from Camp Bullis. It's exactly the kind of 
development Army leaders say contribute to light and noise pollution 
that threatens night-training exercises and destroys habitat for 
endangered species, including the golden-cheeked warbler.

As neighboring habitat disappears, the warblers are pushed into the 
sanctuary of Camp Bullis. The more warblers at Camp Bullis, the more 
acreage that is rendered unusable to the military due to environmental 
concerns.

...

For the entire editorial, see
http://www.mysanantonio.com/opinion/editorials/51052487.html

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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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