I live exactly two miles from the southern end of Paine Field and I am in direct line with the main runway.
I have no problem with commercial aviation at Paine Field. Furthermore, I resent the fact that a small but very vocal minority is trying to deprive the needs and rights of the majority. There are hundreds of thousands of people in this county, and more hundreds of thousands coming, and this small group of several hundred people is trying to lock out any chance of local commercial aviation for those hundreds of thousands of people.
We all know that the U.S. government required that commercial aviation could not be prohibited as a condition of the transfer of the ownership of Paine Field. Paine Field was there long before most of the houses, and those same people who now occupy them. This includes me.
This small group is trying to achieve politically what it cannot achieve legally. At the same time, they are trying to force thousands of people to drive to SeaTac forever, thereby wasting huge amounts of time, not to mention gasoline.
Airplane engines are getting quieter all the time. Thousands of people live right up to the edge of SeaTac and they are coping just fine. New homes are being built and sold there all the time.
We definitely should allow, and even encourage, commercial aviation at Paine Field. We should not let this small group deprive the majority of the people of Snohomish County of their right to locally accessible commercial aviation.
Kenneth W. Weigel
Edmonds
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