The Airport

I live in the flight path.

Locals are split on the issue.

But, here's the deal as I see it ...

There is this full-sized, jumbo jet capable airstrip. It is in the major metropolitan area of a city in need of more airstrips but with no convenient location to add. We are expected to believe that somehow the feds won't simply force commercial use down our throats?

There is an opportunity to work with the growth to make it as palatable as possible with community involvement. This opportunity will not last once the feds and courts start inevitably weighing in. There is a sense of inevitability here that too many in the area are trying to say is not there. They are trying to be a speed bump. The problem is that speed bumps are not stop lights. People drive over speed bumps.

I'm not sure I like it either, but there are ways to make it work.