NEW DEVELOPMENT

Well now, we have another opportunity for the city to lie to the Feds.  New development is starting off of Airport road.   What it is yet we do not know, but since no one else knows yet, it only makes sense that the city is going to let Boulder put the 175 or so homes within 800 feet or so of the centerline of a runway.   So apparently the city learned nothing over the outer road 7460 fiasco, but now when they say “we didn’t know!!!” they will look dumber than they did before. 

Not sure if this is Boulder, but if it was anything else Ron Blum would be telling everyone about the new progress he brought to St. Clair.   This had to be of knowledge at the time of the Chamber speech, so the rational speculation here is that Boulder is going ahead, without any 7460, and the city is trying to keep it quiet, hoping that they can get to a “ it’s too late to stop it now!” point. 

That’s fine, but, in order to get what the city wants, they have to be in compliance.  Allowing this development to proceed, could cause the FAA to suspend closure consideration for ever.   The city signed a contract, and agreed to prevent any residential development this close to an airport. 

See  Chapter 20 of 5190.6b. 

I am not going to post them here; the mayor will say that they are untrue. 

If Ron Blum was telling the truth about a retail development at the airport sight, why would he allow a residential development to sit right in the middle of the shopping center, the commercial property all around it?  This is the stupidest think to come out of St. Clair yet.  Well maybe not as stupid as having to shut down the outer road project the same day as the ribbon cutting.

Concerning airport road and the damage that Airevac did to the road back in 2011.  If a pilot would have done this to the road the city would have taken them to court, and made them pay for it. 

From the city minuetes.

Mayor Blum stated, “This is a situation that happened unexpectedly and I think…..(this is funny as hell.  “ I think”) …..this primarily occurred when Air Evac was installing their new modular home for the tenants at the airport.

“I think”……there is no thinking to b e done here.   Ron Blum was at the airport with the administrator the day it happened.  So the city spent another $24,350.52 on repairs due to damage by AirEvac.  Let’s look at the total so far.   The $33,749.46 they spent to put Airevac on the field, the $22,000 they spent on the first hangar, and now $24,350.52 on the airport road repairs.  That’s about $82,404.00 according to my spreadsheet.  How much money did the city make on renting to Airevac?  Somewhere around $20,000.   Brilliant management practices. 

Previous post about the amount of money the city spent on AirEvac, did not take into account the road damage.   What is sick here, after the first truck started to tear up the road, why didn’t they stop?   Why didn’t the city tell them to stop?