Airport area study group should offer clear rules
Well, it's about time. After all the whining from those intelligent folks at the Cardinal about the impending airport noise, we are finally going to come up with a master plan to limit residential construction near the airport (Local, Aug. 8).
We obviously cannot depend on purchasers of housing to choose wisely, but we can count on them to insist that we bail them out when airport noise disturbs them. I guess they just didn't know the Triad was in growth mode when they bought.
The study group should draw a wide band around the airport. Let them anticipate a fourth runway, if not a fifth, which may be necessary to get it right. A well-thought-out plan should make developers happy since they will no longer have to guess where and what they can build on that side of town. Let the commissioners/council members stick with the plan regardless of who may come to them begging for special exemption. After all, once the plan is public, everyone will know what the deal is ahead of time. The sooner it gets published, the better for everyone, so let's see the study group's progress reported in this paper regularly.
Walter J. Sperko
Greensboro