Hillsboro Air Show

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(=?iso-8859-1?q?Spread_Eagle_=AE?=) says...
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 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.

Besides, to any thinking person with half a brain it was fully
foreseeable that real estate in that area would become urbanized.
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.

Airplanes fly over populated areas all the time, and occasionally one
crashes. Accidents happen. The best way of dealing with the problem is
to improve air safety, not move the airport to some remote area where
nobody will use it. The Hillsboro Airport gets a lot of traffic
precisely because it is so convenient.

If people want to live next to an airport, it's their business, not
yours. Caveat emptor. It's not like the existence of the airport is a
secret.

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Larry Caldwell wrote:

Airplanes fly over populated areas all the time, and occasionally one
crashes. Accidents happen. The best way of dealing with the problem is
to improve air safety, not move the airport to some remote area where
nobody will use it. The Hillsboro Airport gets a lot of traffic
precisely because it is so convenient.

If people want to live next to an airport, it's their business, not
yours. Caveat emptor. It's not like the existence of the airport is a
secret.


Usually airports are placed as out of the way as possible, and if they
must be in populated areas, the minimization of take off and landing
corridors passing over residential areas as much as possible is done.

But my comment was actually pertinent to the air show, that it's a
disaster waiting to happen, and that as such it should be relocated.
Another poster interpreted that to mean moving the airport, an idea I
got on board, mainly because Washington County is going to get a major
airport ala PDX sooner or later. The population there is going to
require it. I don't believe that the present Hillsboro location can or
will fill that need. They might as well start planning for it now.

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Usually airports are placed as out of the way as possible, and if they
must be in populated areas, the minimization of take off and landing
corridors passing over residential areas as much as possible is done.

So are rifle ranges, but then a bunch of idiots and soccer moms buy into the
developers' brochures and build houses next to them, and then expect
sympathy.

Not Our Problem, unless you also want to close down PDX, Troutdale, LAX,
SeaTac, Dallas and any other airport that causes jets to arrive and depart
over populated areas.

Go on....get it done. We need replacement airports in place and ready to
serve before the others are shut down, the way Denver handled the Stapleton
phase-out.

But my comment was actually pertinent to the air show, that it's a
disaster waiting to happen, and that as such it should be relocated.

Nope. Developers and NIMBYs lost the day. Such is the will of the people,
which--I understand--has nothing to do with the will of the developer and
the NIMBY soccer mom, but, in this case, tough-titty-said-the-kitty.
F/A-18s inbound!

-c