"Roger Halstead" wrote
snipped, airport situation

Man, your city mustve taken lessons from mine, or vice versa. Damn
near carbon copy with their tactics, glad we're not alone. Lets see...
Neighbors fight runway extension for same reason, they dont buy our
argument that we'd be higher when over their house - more of a head
start, etc.
Blatant lies by the neighbors about who was doing what.
Once they were threatened with the equivalent of liens put against
their properties due to their constant mostly fabricated noise complaints
they chilled, for a while.
One of the complainers is making money on the airport now with a
portable bbq business, but I'm sure he's paying nothing in rent.
The city plays games with the airport fund, money that should go into
it somehow shows up in the general fund.
It's the only airport/city in the state that anyone knows about that you
pay a hefty sales tax/use fee when you bring an airplane there and
base it there.
What little money is in the airport fund, the city uses on binoculars,
camcorders, and radios given to the biggest airport opponents. Which
of course they use to further their cause.
When the city asked me to be a mediator with the neighbors I turned
them down until they level the playing field and quit subsidizing
this anti-airport campaign. I still deal with them privately though,
you can't just ignore them and shut them out.
Chris