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The airport expansion has been a time consuming process that has occurred over several decades. Most of the homes that were originally intended to be acquired have been. Others have either moved or had noise abatement measures taken. Back in the 1980s the fear was that the expansion planned at that time would require the relocation of Airport Road itself as well as Airport Plaza, possibly Confreda Farms property plus many other local businesses. Those that weren't planned to be acquired would be affected. Because of a combination of factors the effects of Airport expansion that was planned back then have been somewhat mitigated. 1) A partial expansion occurred during the Sundlun Administration with the terminal & adjacent properties improved &/or acquired. in addition, other businesses & additional property was gradually acquired by RIAC; the community through no choice of their own had to accept these changes. 2) Through technology advances/improvements the larger planes of the 1980s weren't required to provide the West Coast travel flights that RIAC wanted/required at that time. RIAC was able to propose a scaled back expansion plan to basically obtain their long term plans-the newer runway safety measures could be used to allow for expansion on a smaller scale & achieve the same results. 3) In 2005, Green was a bigger player in the Airport system- it's unlikely they will reach 5,000, 000 passengers in the foreseeable future. Green's expansion is geared for a combination of commercial(cargo such as UPS & Fed EX) & passenger increases. Airports today are much more competitive. 4) The City billing RIAC? That's laughable-don't waste your time; RIAC is a quasi-State agency with FAA backing-the City would likely get nowhere.4) As far as the Intermodal/City Centre project, it will likely all come down to whether or not the State/City can convince Amtrak to make regular stops here; that would be the prime target-CONCENTRATE on that-the MBTA might also be a needed partner.5) The airport was built in a place, that, at the time, was not as populated with a high residential base & Quonset was federal land; the decision was made to make Green the State's central airport; in the late 1970s/1980s an option may have existed for Quonset to be that airport, but now that option has passed. Whether Warwick likes it or not, "it is what it is".