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From: laura@hoptoad.uucp (Laura Creighton)
Newsgroups: net.politics.theory
Subject: Re: Private roads (and airports)
Message-ID: <491@hoptoad.uucp>
Date: Wed, 5-Feb-86 14:03:38 EST
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Posted: Wed Feb  5 14:03:38 1986
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In article <993@psivax.UUCP> friesen@psivax.UUCP (Stanley Friesen) writes:
>	A prime example is Kansas City. About 15 years ago a new KCI
>airport was built. It was *deliberately* placed in a undeveloped area,
>with few residents, in an attempt to minimize the noise nuisance
>problem(the old airport was adjacent to downtown KC). The area is now
>on of the most rapidly gowing developement areas in the Kansas City
>area. So much for getting the airport away from the city where it
>won't bother anyone!

Ah, but the attempt suceeeded!  They didn't plunk down an airport and
inconvenience exiting residents with the noise.  What they did was make 
it possible for you to choose to accept the noise level in exchange
for the other benefits of living by an airport ... if you had to move
there to a new development area you can hardly say that you didn't
choose it.

Actually, you can.  Allow me to make a prediction.  Because of the
noise, places to live are cheaper near the airport.  So lots of people
move there.  Allow them to live their five years and they will start
agitating that the plane noise is offensive, and start trying to get
some government to do something about the noise.  The proper response
to such people is to tell them that they can move back wherever they came
from if they no longer find the trade between chearp housing and noise
to their advantage, but if there are a lot of them (many potential votes)
the airport may be hit with a lot of restictions.  My sympathies to the
airport builders and owners -- they just got handed a ``you can't win''
situation...

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Laura Creighton		
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