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?