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352 acres will buffer Salt Lake airport

SO WHAT if there is development close to the airport? We're not going to expand to the west in the next 50 years or so.

The only winners in this deal are the sellers. We, the people paying the bill, won't get a dime's worth of benefit.

I'm getting tired of the attitude that this city has toward the taxpayers.

Buffer zones should an automatic zone around any and all airports. Developers and land speculators put people in harms way and cause severe interference of airport operations. Any land abutting an airport within 2 miles should be zoned uninhabital for homes and restricted temporary use as commercial developement. If the land was zoned to exclude developement then tax payers wouldn't have to use tax funds to insure public safety and aircraft safety. The noise and severity of aircraft accidents alone should preclude the use of land within a certain radius of an airport. Also, airports need room for expansion that will be safe for all. The #2 airport is a good example of overdeveloment around an airport. It once had a buffer zone for safety and now the buffer zone is gone and airport expansion is impossible. Complaints are inevitable and preventable. Developers lie to cities and cities lie to home and property buyers. Airports need this buffer zone and if they have to buy it then they have no choice but to use tax funds.