We have been staging on the SE corner of the airport, about 80ft from
the edge of the runway. We have a perfect safety record and we blend
very well with the small amount of power traffic that we share our
public airport with. The main reason for whatever action the FAA
might have called for is that a grass runway was put in between the
main runway and the taxi way on the north side of the runway. The
port is now requiring the gliders to stage more than 1000ft up the
3000ft runway, which will greatly lower our margins for safety on
takeoff. We will either have to back taxi 1000+ feet back down the
only runway for every flight, tying up the active runway. or leave
1000 feet of runway behind us. Neither option is as good as the way
we have been safely operating for decades now. The requirement that
only one aircraft at a time is allowed on the taxi ways will be very
interesting during our fly-ins when many dozens of aircraft will want
to depart at the same time.

Boggs