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Say No to the
city of Eden Prairie for changing a 30 year policy against the
expansion without any public disclosure or discussion.
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Say No to the
city of Eden Prairie for using taxpayer dollars to lobby federal
legislators for federal funding to expand Flying Cloud Airport .
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Say No to the
new leadership on the council who joined the Eden Prairie Chamber
against the general public to fight for federal funding for the
airport without public disclosure.
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Say No to
overstated projections for future operations sited by MAC in the EIS,
when the reality is the airport’s operations have continued to decline
for the last 10 years.
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Say No to
runway expansions that will not bring operational safety to the
airport because the FAA has extended the safety buffer area which
means these expanded runways will have less safety buffer than
before. Right now FCM's runways do not have the 1,000ft of safety
buffer required.
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Say No to a
Mayor who would suppress information and add another layer of
governmental control over city commissions by requesting more
"positives" about the operations and status of the airport instead of
a balance of what's positive and negative.
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Say No to
an expansion which falsely represents the negative economic impacts
caused by increased operations to homeowners. Considering FCM's
location and the positioning of the jet flight path over residential
districts, a degraded quality of life may drive out residents. When
that happens an airport can become the sole factor for the decline
of a community.
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Say No to
an expansion because operating capital in the form of subsidies from
MSP will be significantly reduced, Federal Funding will be reduced for
General Aviation when the Airport and Airway Reauthorization takes
place in fall of 2007, which means funding will always be a financial
difficulty.
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Say No to a
city that spends $700,000.00 of Taxpayer money for legal commitments
from MAC to protect the community and then under new council
leadership turns their back on the spirit of the agreement and their
constituents.
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Say No to
funding for an airport that isn’t self-sustaining.
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Say No to an
airport whose private operators won’t spend their own money to paint
their hangars. They want federal money which is taxpayer money.
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Say No to an
airport expansion that will benefit less than 1% of Flying Cloud’s
users.
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Say No to an
expansion that increases unsafe small aircraft traffic in new Class B
Airspace surrounding MSP. It's costlier and less safe for
small aircraft to circumnavigate this airspace.
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Say
No to a Chamber of Commerce whose sole interest is to boost the
businesses they represent.
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Say No to the
economic multipliers used to forecast the economic impact to the
city from an expansion of Flying Cloud Airport because they are based
on an economic model that presumes that a large portion of salary
generated in a local area by businesses will remain in the area and
flow back into the economy generating more profits and wages, which
then are re-spent creating more jobs and so on. This model works in
isolated communities without easy access to alternative economic
outlets. Their underlying assumptions fall short in a complex
multi-metro area like Minneapolis , St Paul .
