■ 20 March 2010 | 5:00 AM
OLF flaws
Re '$7.5 million gamble on Navy's jet base,' letters, March 9: Youreditorial on funding for rolling back encroachment around Oceana failed to mention facts pertaining to the Hampton Roads Joint Land Use Study completed in2005.The U.S. Navy, in partnership with the cities of Hampton Roads, reached this agreement to 'explore opportunities to reduce noise impacts on communities surrounding NAS Oceana, NALF Fentress and Chambers Field while accommodating necessary growth and maintaining regional economic sustainability.'
This partnership was tasked with finding an Outlying Landing Field. One of the options for this field was northeastern North Carolina. These recommendations in the land-use study were passed into law on March 30, 2006. Just a 'small' detail wasn't addressed. The state of North Carolinaand Currituck County were notpart of these negotiations. You would think that Virginia and the city of Virginia Beach would have shown common courtesy and included their neighbors to the south, who would be affected. Nope.
NowVirginia Beach is left with a way to figure out what to do with a flawed solution.
H.M. 'Butch' Petrey
Grandy, N.C.
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Great Letter
It really is that simple. The Navy has (unconstitutionally in my opinion) "partnered" with a community (Va. Beach) to usurp the authority of another local government in another state without bothering to invite them to the table. It would be like Currituck County "partnering" with the federal government to build a landfill in Chesapeake without bothering to invite Chesapeake officials to the table.
Secretary of the Navy, please stop this OLF madness! The Navy has been looking for an additional OLF (they already have one at Fentress) for ten years now for one simple reason: VA BEACH HAS FAILED TO PROTECT THE MISSION AT OCEANA! Too much development and for too long. Why does some other community have to pay for Va. Beach's failures???
If our Congress had any guts at all they would arrest and bring every member of Va Beach City Council and every Va Beach mayor (are you listening Meyera?) from the last 30 years before Congress and try every one of them for treason. What they have done to Oceana by allowing, even encouraging, all that development should be treason.
ha as if
As if Virginia Beach ever thinks about its neighbors. No more narcissistic group of people have ever existed. Ask Gaston, NC what they think of Virginia Beach. I hope they loose the base it would serve them right, traffic would greatly reduced, and the tourists could stop clogging our roads in the summer. Honestly, only the ignorant vacation here anyhow(then they get their car towed and stuck on the HRBT and never come back anyhow), there are so much better things to do with better people almost anywhere else in the country.