In article ,
Larry Dighera wrote:

On Fri, 10 Mar 2006 21:45:56 GMT, Jose
wrote in : :

Who do you think has a greater incentive to close the airport?

What of the interests of the municipality's board of supervisors? By
permitting the airport property to be developed, they receive
additional tax revenue instead of having to subsidize the cost of
running the airport.

But in the long run, both the city and its residents loose; in the
future they will not have a local airport from which to reach the
international airport that has been relocated some distance from
development.

Don't forget -- developers represent the largest single contributor
special interest group at the state and local levels in the US.

As such, they automatically have the ear of the politicians.

The only remedy is to organize and to support our aviation PAC's (AOPA
PAC, California Pilot PAC, etc.) We can whine, or we can act!