On 30 Jun 2005 10:36:36 -0700, wrote in
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The recent Kelo decision scares me a lot. I've heard legal
experts take both sides, but my gut instinct is that this will
encourage municipalities to stage a lot more eminent domain raids on
unpopular properties like small airports

If the municipalities are willing to pay back the AIP money they
received, I suppose there may be some danger of eminent domain raids
on airports. What needs to be driven home to the leaders in those
municipalities, is the reliance on outlying municipal airports of the
coming SATS technological revolution in air transportation. Once the
little airport is converted into a strip mall, the municipality will
have to use eminent domain to reestablish it, or get left out of the
future change in aviation.