Exactly... the town of Stratford has such a bug up it's butt about not
getting taxes on the airport acreage that they think that any excuse to
put it on the tax rolls is ok. I can't imagine me doing much flying if
BDR closed down. Part of the reason I fly is getting from one place to
another quickly. my drive to the airport is 5 minutes, preflight is 20
and I can be in the air in about 30-45 mins. My next closest airport is
HVN which is on the other side of a horrible bridge trafficwise. Or
HPN which is very expensive or OXC which is just plain out of the way.

I'm thinking that this proposal was floated without any real
investigation, after all who knows anything about this Urban Land
Institute anyway or what their agenda is. I'm guessing it will all blow
over in due course once the real story comes out and the real costs
involved to do what they propose are known.

Robert

Denny wrote:

Yes, but what they sow is poison that affects all of GA... The demise
of Bridgeport is sad... When I was a young whippersnapper, a
Bridgeport mill or lathe was the Rolls Royce of machinery...
Here in Michigan the tax and regulation climate is becoming
semi-friendly to business (the biased pro-union / anti- employer laws
are not, however)... What is hysterically funny (to me) is that our
elected Democrat Governor has to swallow hard almost every day and
propose further cuts in state pork for the willfully unemployed and the
socialism fanatics, and is now even proposing a reduction in the Single
Business Tax (just saying those three words makes my blood pressure go
up, being a business that gets hosed by this tax)... For which I will
give her endless credit for using common sense over her political
religion...

Denny