N.C. wants Navy to put landing field elsewhere

[supernova]

RALEIGH, N.C. — Gov. Beverly Perdue and legislative leaders on Monday asked the Navy to stop looking in eastern North Carolina for a landing field.

"The procurement of an (outlying landing field) in North Carolina must not be forced upon any community that has voiced its opposition to it,” Perdue, Senate President Pro Tempore Marc Basnight and House Speaker Joe Hackney wrote in a letter to Secretary of the Navy Ray Mabus.

“The local governments of Camden, Currituck and Gates counties have clearly expressed such opposition,” they wrote.

A 2005 land-use study for the Hampton Roads Planning District Commission cited development around Naval Air Station Oceana and its landing field as an obstacle to the Navy’s continued flight operations in and around Virginia Beach, Va. The study recommended that the Navy “pursue development of an additional outlying landing field in North Carolina” to alleviate the impact of growth in southeastern Virginia.

More: http://www.wral.com/news/local/politics/story/8282800/

[littlewolf]

1. Hope the Navy listens ..... NO OLF !

this is one area of common ground no one R or D wants this .....