OLF
Submitted by Kiera on Fri, 03/20/2009 - 7:41am
There is a great debate in our state right now about a bill introduced. Our politicians are trying to protect the will of the people with this bill. I would love your thoughts.
The entire process is very complicated and has a history of over 10 years.
We have documents that we believe will prove that another state is using the U.S. Navy as a proxy to solve their land use problems stemming from the uneasy juxtaposition of a master jet base with encroaching residential development. This represents an unprecedented reach across state lines by two Virginia jurisdictions to impose imminent domain proceedings on poorer citizens of another state without consent.
Here are two news articles that can explain what I am talking about.
Here is the bill: http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2009/Bills/House/HTML/H613V0.html
Here are a couple of news articles: http://www.dailyadvance.com/news/bill-requires-state-ok-for-olf-497201.html
http://hamptonroads.com/2009/03/bill-would-require-nc-permission-navy-fi...
The blogs are insightful however, I don’t know who the people are and if they have any background in constitutional law or history.
Your thoughts would be greatly appreciated.
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Thanks for this round-up of the lastest OLF news
I've been following this legislation and it seems to have very strong grounding.
The Navy has been stunningly incompetent throughout the entire OLF debacle, and shows no signs of having learned anything along the way. I suspect the Navy will want to contest this in court, in which case David Price and/or GK Butterfield will likely sponsor legislation to prohibit them from spending any money to do so.
It's too early to declare victory, but it looks to me like the Navy has been check mated. I see no way for the Navy to move ahead without meeting the criteria laid out.
Frontpaged.
Please take a look at this
http://www.vbgov.com/file_source/dept/planning/Document/JLUS_Ch5.pdf
Talk about over stepping your bounds.
This outlines the Navy's plan under the HRJLUS to pursue construction of an OLF in North Carolina to mitigate noise concerns in Va. Beach and Chesapeake.
This document appears to be an agreement between the Navy and Virginia Beach that seeks to impose a burden on another locality in another state as part of a final Land Use Plan without the consent of the affected localities in another state. This appears to be a case of a Virginia locality (with the help of the Navy) reaching across the state line to impose a solution to its own land use problems on a NC locality without that locality's consent.
And there is even more. Read Chapter 4. Read the summary. Its unbelievable.
Kira