[CPEO-MEF] ENCROACHMENT: Fort Hood, Texas Joint Land Use Study

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Study takes aim at commercial encroachment that could impact training at Fort Hood

By Jacob Brooks and JC Jones 
FME News Service 
October 10, 2015 

KILLEEN - Could commercial or other non-military development going up around the outskirts of Fort Hood’s borders adversely affect Army training and readiness?

That’s just one question a $255,000 study will attempt to answer over the next year. The Fort Hood Joint Land Use Study, or JLUS, will “identify and mitigate compatibility and encroachment issues that may impact training, operations, testing and power projection missions at Fort Hood,” according to a Killeen government document outlining the need for such a study.

“We’re doing it on behalf of all Central Texas communities that are impacted by Fort Hood,” said Glenn Morrison, Killeen’s city manager. City staff are proposing North Carolina-based Benchmark to conduct the 13-month study, which could begin as early as next month.

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For the entire article, see
http://www.tdtnews.com/news/article_867b743e-6fa9-11e5-9637-7f6ed89b44d6.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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Voice: 650-961-8918 or 650-969-1545
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