I knew you were paying attention.

The thing that makes it "illegal" is the contract an airport authority signs when it accepts funds under the FAA's Airport Improvement Program (funding 20% by the general fund by most estimates). This really got sticky when they added this to their contracts. Some states started screaming about the Fed telling the States what they could and could not do with their own land. The contract was carefully worded so that the airport sponsor was only required to do the best it could to prevent such projects from going forward. That's what ticked me off about Kendallville's situation. Kendallville not only did not do everything possible to prevent the school from going up, it actually took action to insure the school would be built. It actually made an exception to its own law to make sure the school could be built there. So, Kendallville is in the position (and the fsckers at the FAA are complicit) of claiming that "taking action to make sure something happens is the same thing as taking action to prevent something from happening."

Post #286,181 by mmoffitt 6/4/07 2:16:22 PM Reply	I knew you were paying attention. And what ticks me off is the FAA will let them - after pumping several million dollars into developing the airport. Including a land grant that carries the condition that the airport remain as an airport open to the public in perpetuity. Now, the FAA did enforce that clause in Oceanside, CA, but its contract enforcement is spotty at best. Basically, whichever airport engineering/consulting firm "has a buddy at the ADO" gets the dough and they want to keep them at the taxpayers trough. So, they overlook pesky little things like keeping airports open - even though that's supposed to be their damned job. bcnu, Mikem It would seem, therefore, that the three human impulses embodied in religion are fear, conceit, and hatred. The purpose of religion, one might say, is to give an air of respectibility to these passions. -- Bertrand Russell
Post #286,183 by Yendor 6/4/07 2:24:54 PM Reply	YM like Meigs Field? -YendorMike "They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety." - Benjamin Franklin, 1759 Historical Review of Pennsylvania
Post #286,201 by folkert 6/4/07 6:45:50 PM Reply	And how the Mayor had the runway torn up in a single night? -- [link\|mailto:greg@gregfolkert.net\|greg], [link\|http://www.iwethey.org/ed_curry\|REMEMBER ED CURRY!] @ *i_wethey* `PGP key: 1024D/B524687C 2003-08-05 Fingerprint: E1D3 E3D7 5850 957E FED0 2B3A ED66 6971 B524 687C Alternate Fingerprint: 09F9 1102 9D74 E35B D841 56C5 6356 88C0 Alternate Fingerprint: 455F E104 22CA 29C4 933F 9505 2B79 2AB2`
Post #286,318 by mmoffitt 6/6/07 1:34:17 PM Reply	And left > 10 aircraft stranded. >:-( bcnu, Mikem It would seem, therefore, that the three human impulses embodied in religion are fear, conceit, and hatred. The purpose of religion, one might say, is to give an air of respectibility to these passions. -- Bertrand Russell
Post #286,193 by CRConrad 6/4/07 5:20:29 PM Reply	Didn't take much attention; obvious even from way over here.
Post #286,821 by jb4 6/11/07 10:42:10 PM Reply	Now just you wait a minnit, there, buddy! O'Hare Interirrational Airport, what used to be the worlds largest until people finally got smart and rerouted to Milwaukee or Midway, has (even as we speak) an elementary school just a bit off the glidepath of 22R (or is it 24R?). Been there since I was a mere pratt. And now you're telling me it's illegal?!? Oh, the Humanity!! jb4 "It's hard for me, you know, living in this beautiful White House, to give you a firsthand assessment." — George W. Bush, when asked if he believed Iraq was in a state of civil war (Newsweek, 26 Feb 07)
Post #287,054 by mmoffitt 6/15/07 11:38:39 AM Reply	Maybe not illegal. The thing that makes it "illegal" is the contract an airport authority signs when it accepts funds under the FAA's Airport Improvement Program (funding 20% by the general fund by most estimates). This really got sticky when they added this to their contracts. Some states started screaming about the Fed telling the States what they could and could not do with their own land. The contract was carefully worded so that the airport sponsor was only required to do the best it could to prevent such projects from going forward. That's what ticked me off about Kendallville's situation. Kendallville not only did not do everything possible to prevent the school from going up, it actually took action to insure the school would be built. It actually made an exception to its own law to make sure the school could be built there. So, Kendallville is in the position (and the fsckers at the FAA are complicit) of claiming that "taking action to make sure something happens is the same thing as taking action to prevent something from happening." bcnu, Mikem It would seem, therefore, that the three human impulses embodied in religion are fear, conceit, and hatred. The purpose of religion, one might say, is to give an air of respectibility to these passions. -- Bertrand Russell

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