Longtime Dispute With Army Over Dream Home Nears End

Army officials say the house should never have been built because it encroaches on a security easement around a training facility in a wooded area south of 195th Street between Cleveland and Prospect avenues. Dick and Joyce Robinson, the owners, say they got verbal permission to build their house from the training site's previous tenant — the Air Force. Army officials say the facility serves a vital mission for training soldiers, particularly in the global war on terror. On May 19, a spokesperson with the 88th Regional Support Command based at Fort McCoy, Wisconsin, said the Robinsons never had permission to build the house and that Dick Robinson's request to officials, including the president at the time, had been denied. The Kansas City Star (http://bit.ly/2rW1QV2 ) reports that for years now, the two sides — the Robinsons live in another house across the road — have engaged in an uneasy peace that at times escalated to threats, harassment and near violence. Adding to the drama is that the Belton Training Area has long been a mystery in the neighborhood with tales of UFOs, underground bunkers, flares in the trees and nighttime parachute drops. Neighbors talk of mysterious lights in the woods, nuclear bombs, low-flying Chinook helicopters and nighttime training ops. On Friday, an Army spokesperson said: "The 88th RSC has no information regarding any such harassment or threats" to residents. At first, rules prohibited human habitation in the area because the site would be used for munitions storage, hazardous waste disposal and training. Things looked promising in 1991 when the Soviet Union collapsed, ending the Cold War and causing military bases to close all over the country. The talk in the neighborhood was that the military was bugging out and that the training area would revert to private development, with adjacent property owners getting first dibs. When officials with the 88th Regional Support

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