XPost: rec.aviation.piloting, or.politics   
   From: dhomuth1@comcast.net   
      
   On 17 Nov 2006 18:33:38 -0800, "Spread Eagle ®"   
    wrote:   
      
   >Nothing gets developed anywhere without city, county, or state   
   >approval, any of them or all of them, depending upon the project.  This   
   >didn't happen in a vacuum.   
      
   The cities and counties do not have complete authority over what gets   
   developed or even zoned.  The appeals process for developers can trump   
   local zoning or approval actions easily enough.   
      
   > The city and or county issued building   
   >permits for all of that housing.  Government was complicit.   And it   
   >had to be.  That is prime residential real estate.  It's the airport   
   >that's out of place.   
      
   The airport was there first -- back into the 1930's, if what's written   
   is correct.   
      
   >Besides, to any thinking person with half a brain it was fully   
   >foreseeable that real estate in that area would become urbanized.   
      
   It's foreseeable that Most real estate within a hundred miles of any   
   urban area will become developed.  It just takes time to do it.   
      
   >That's one reason why thinking people with a full brain have serious   
   >problems with city and county urban planners.  They don't know what   
   >they are doing.   
      
   Sure they do.  They take what's there when they start, and attempt to   
   come up with ways to deal with things from that point forward.   
   Precisely None of the urban planners involved in Hillsboro were there   
   when the airport was first emplaced.   
      
   But this is easy and simple enough to solve:   
      
   Have the Real Estate types make an offer for the airport property,   
   such that it pays for the value of the airport in place, pays for   
   replacement property on which to develop a new airport, pays for the   
   search costs of finding the replacement property, and pays for the   
   expense of moving from one site to another.   
      
   That's the Free Market approach to the Hillsboro airport.   
      
   So - let the bidding begin!   
      
   And if no real estate developer wishes to do that, then let them   
   remain quiet until someone comes up with a way to defray the public   
   costs of replacing it so the real estate developers can benefit from   
   the action.   
      
   Seem fair to you?   
      
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