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The option is to close the airport and relocate it further somewhere out,
at
the cost of tens of millions of dollars to state and federal taxpayers.
Because a handful of developers and home buyers deliberately chose to
build
their house under an airport's flight pattern.

Doesn't matter who was there first. It's the way the area grew.

Apparently, it does. The airshow and the airport remain, and the dumbass
California types who bought land around an airport and don't like jets can
either suck it up or move the hell out.

General Aviation: 1 NIMBY yuppies and land developers: 0

I remember when the Hillsboro airport was out in the middle of nowhere.
Not anymore. It's a hazard.

They shouldn't have built around it then. But they did. I say, we move the
airport under the condition that those dip****s pay for the relocation.
Airports are cheap, right?

If you stop and think about it, the beauty of it is that financially
it's a win-win deal.

Then we better move Portland International and Troutdale as well, because
those are in populated areas. The taxpayers will thank you, I'm sure.

The property that the airport sits on now, situated where it is, is primo
upscale suburban real estate. Promo.

Nevermind the expense of HAVING TO BUILD NEW AIRPORTS.

It's value to investing developers is astronomical.

Of course it is. Of course it is.

The profit from the sale would pay for the property, the building of a
bigger and more modern airport, and the move to it.

Well, then, all they have to do is build the airport on speculation so that
there's an airport ready to go when HIO shuts down.

Ready...go. No, seriously. Ready.....GO! What? Nobody's interested
in building a new airport so we can shut HIO down?
Or maybe that should be left to the taxpayers?

-c