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It is a reality that airport planning never ends. Perhaps the biggest lesson to come out of all of this recent activity is the realization that we still have more problems than anyone imagined, and that the federal planning process for this airport appears to have been grossly mismanaged. Hopefully the formal legal challenge will lead to a blueprint for a new team to follow to determine the optimal size for this land-limited airport, once and for all. The decision by those in control of the airport planning process to abruptly abandon the pre-planning stage prematurely has turned out to be an apparent fatal flaw running throughout the rest of the planning process. Avoiding the resolution of the overly restrictive deed easements situation is another apparent time waster, as was failing to follow up with the lung cancer study using 2010 Census data when it became available. The City Council should be thanked for attempting to reach an agreement over as much as is possible with the airport corporation, but the real issues are within the federal airport planning process itself, and they are not addressed by agreeing to relocate a ball-field or two, or to continue monitoring the air without doing anything about the existing pollution effects. We will have to see what comes out of this City Council sub-committee effort, before determining the next steps in the airport planning process.

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