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"Airport Land Use: Pilots pan planned Arizona airport subdivision"

Tuesday, May 15, 2007

Pilots pan planned airport subdivision
Allowing Statesboro to begin building homes would start 'long decline in
airport's viability'
By Suzanne Adams
The Kingman (AZ) Daily Miner


KINGMAN - The Aircraft Owners and Pilots Association is weighing in on the
proposed Statesboro development near the Kingman Airport. 

The association's vice president of regional affairs, Bill Dunn, recently
sent a letter to the Mohave County Board of Supervisors. In it, the
association urges the Board to deny a request for a minor amendment to the
county General Plan that would allow the construction of the subdivision.
Last month, the County Planning and Zoning Commission denied a request from
a developer to build the subdivision near the Kingman Airport. 

The two main concerns raised by Airport Authority personnel and residents
were noise and proximity to the end of one of the runways. The airport has
future plans to expand the runway another 3,000 feet, which would put it
about 2,500 feet from the subdivision. 

The subdivision would also be under the direct approach line for incoming
aircraft to the airport. 

"The airport is a tremendous economic engine for the local economy and must
be uninhibited in fulfilling that role. Allowing residential development
near an airport simply is not wise land-use planning," the letter states. 

The association also states in the letter, "based on our 68 years of general
aviation airport advocacy, the association has seen, first-hand, that
residential encroachment around airports is the first step in the long
decline of an airport's viability and economic development opportunities.

"AOPA believes very strongly that prevention of incompatible land use now is
easier than mitigation later," Dunn said in his letter. 

The letter was sent to all three supervisors, County Manager Ron Walker,
County Planning and Zoning Department Director Chris Ballard and David
French, the executive director of the Kingman Airport Authority.

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