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Sussex Airport owner urges county action over zoning, says noncompliance cost FAA grants and raised safety concerns
Summary
The owner and manager of Sussex Airport told commissioners the airport faces safety and grant-eligibility problems tied to noncompliant adjacent property use; county officials said enforcement of municipal zoning is outside county jurisdiction.
Sussex Airport's owner and manager used the county public-comment period on April 23 to press county commissioners for help enforcing municipal zoning and to describe what they said are safety risks and lost federal grant opportunities tied to a neighboring parcel.
Alan Attecki, identified as the airport owner, told the board the adjacent lot was sold in the late 1990s to a man named William Gennaro with an agreement that the parcel would be used for hangars and airport-support facilities. "He has never, from my…
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