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Residents urge board to reject airport district and raise concerns about traffic, noise and environmental impacts
Summary
Multiple residents spoke in a public hearing opposing an amendment that would add an airport district to the Spring Hill Commerce Center plan, raising noise, traffic, environmental and eminent-domain concerns. Speakers asked the board to reconsider approvals and demanded more infrastructure planning.
During the public hearing portion of the meeting several residents voiced opposition to proposed amendments that would allow an airport district and broad industrial expansion in the Spring Hill Commerce Center master plan.
Speakers described concerns about noise, air and water quality, traffic impacts and property-rights questions related to right-of-way or eminent-domain acquisitions. Priscilla Keady, who said she lives roughly three miles east of the proposed Spring Hill Corporate Airport and holds a private pilot’s license, urged the board to consider noise impacts and environmental risks such as aircraft emissions, de-icing fluids and light pollution. She said simulations using a Gulfstream…
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