From: orfairbairn@earthlink.net   
      
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    kludge@panix.com (Scott Dorsey) wrote:   
      
   > Orval Fairbairn   wrote:   
   > >   
   > >And -- just HOW does the airport "lower values" so the "poor" can reside   
   > >there?   
   >   
   > Who said it did?   
   >   
   > If you were going to build an airport, would you build it in an area   
   > where land was _expensive_ or an area where land was _cheap_?  Think hard,   
   > and remember that airports take a lot of land.   
      
   Small airports don't take up a lot of land. Yes -- they were built where   
   land was cheap, until the other seekers of cheap land surrounded them.   
   The the greedy real estate developers get into the act and want that   
   nice, flat, easily-buildable piece of property and start agitating the   
   neighbors about noise, "safety," etc. It is only recently that they have   
   become more brazen in telling local governments that the land is   
   "valuable" as a housing or commercial development.   
      
      
   >   
   > >Studies on the matter have shown inconclusive results, at best. What's   
   > >your true agenda?   
   >   
   > Merely to point out the correlation.  Not causation, just correlation.   
   > --scott   
      
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