"Gatt" wrote in message
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"Paul Dow (Remove Caps in mail address)" wrote in
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That big flat area of land is probably very desirable a residential
developer.

Was talking to NWPilot yesterday (he has a new story to tell!) about
Evergreen air park in Vancouver which was closed down after decades of
operation, for rampant housing development. I started thinking "This is an
echo of what the tribal Americans must have felt. Their functional way of
life crowded and closed out by a few people making big money off clueless
immigrant masses."

At some point, people have to draw the line and decide that land
developers and the officials they pay off don't always get to dictate what
happens to our communities or we will end up flying on the functional
equivalent of indian reservations. All we have to do is look to American
history to see what happened to the Seminole and the Cherokee (Pun
intended) to see one possible future.

-c


http://members.tripod.com/airfields_...lds_WA_SW.html

I never went to Evergreen, but it was poorly located to deal with urban
sprawl (e.g. it couldn't have been more in the prime area for development if
they tried). But I wonder what might have happened if they had tried to
bring in a bunch of businesses that needed the airport to survive?