THE VIRGINIAN-PILOT
Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.
DATE: Saturday, December 16, 1995 TAG: 9512160015
SECTION: FRONT PAGE: A14 EDITION: FINAL
TYPE: Letter
LENGTH: Short : 33 lines
Your editorial about jets, Virginia Beach and cloudy prospects (Nov. 30) should be examined more closely.
The 5,000 jobs that you describe as being ``jobs from heaven'' can also be described as being part of a package that is a great detriment to the average citizen and taxpayer of Virginia Beach.
How about considering
That 5,000 more people will overload our highways even further,
That 200 more jets will increase the noise pollution, which is bad enough now,
That jet-engine testing creates a great roar and rattles windows and buildings over a half-mile away,
That aircraft fly over a hospital, psychiatric center, three nursing homes and a new school.
Should the Navy bring these jets and personnel just because Virginia Beach wishes to keep the local economy and tax base growing regardless of the ``bound-to-happen'' aircraft accident from an airfield in the middle of a city of 400,000 and surrounded by hundreds of homes, buildings and people?
RICHARD C. SCHULER
Virginia Beach, Dec. 4, 1995 by CNB