In many ways, this is an awesome land plan, ... But can we get to 200 acres of open space through land grants, or other ways?

Over 25 percent of Townsend land is zoned as open space, so business cannot go there. We have a small percentage of commercially zoned land and another small part zoned industrial. We have to look at ways to work around that.

The Quincy area is attractive to Microsoft for a number of reasons: space available, the land, the access to power, and the close proximity to our headquarters here, which is always good for us.

Our goal with (the buffer) is to ensure that we are able to fully use the land we have for training within our existing boundaries,

"You never reach the promised land. You can march towards it."

At times we could hear the shell casings from the A-10s land on the buildings we were in,