HomeMy WebLinkAbout01 27 1989 Kashi Ranch should relocate so airport can existilokrne 1. Number 46 January 27, 1969
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Kashi Ranch. should relocate so airport can exist
Dear Editor, cheap) and buy acreage it that undeveloped area, where they say the quiet
The airport was never a matter for public concern until 1987 when the dxydesrepreyails.µrhcnycirnewfacUiryhmbeenbuilLtMytannwveout
Florida Department of Transportation (DOT) released an erroneous report, there, sill off their present trtdings to the county and repay thew ruwiciers.
which indicated $6 million was being allocated to maintain the Sebastian The high school can then be built on Kashi Ranch.
Airport. In letters to the editor, signed by Messrs. Rosenkr= and Hathaway, Isn't that what they want Sebastian to do? They recommend a swap with the
both of Kashi Ranch, this press release was incorrectly interpreted to mean federal government of a new site for the old airport To effect this, exports
expansion instead of maintenance. estimate it will cost $50 to S70million of Sebastian taxpayers' money to build
Regardless of a letter from the DOT to Mr. Hathaway, explaining the an airport ounide the city. Once -outside the city. the Sebastian taxpayers will
difference and the fact that no money was to be released, the expansion theory have oo benefit lion, 4.
mushroomed into the "Chicken Little" hysteria that still exists today. In short, what they will have is a bill close to $90 million for the 600 acres
Unless those who persist in prolonging this controversy bought a pig in a on which the present airport sits because, in addition to building the new
poise, which is highly unlikely, they had to be aware the real estate they airport, the land to put it on will have, to be purchased, all vestages of the
purchased was adjacent to an airport If that decision has proved to be a .present airport will have to be removed and the uprto-20-year kasm hdd by
mistake, wouldn't it be fairer to all concerned if they moved fheir .the businesses on the present site will have to be bought. This comes to
congregation instead of forcing Sebastian to move the airport? roughly $150,000 per acre for raw land. Does that make trertse?
Those who spoke at the workshop meeting OcL 19 seem to believe that If tree is money to be lost on such a transaction, at least those who propose
there are desirable sites at attractive prigs in the vicinity of Fellsmere Road such a trove - and not the Sebastian taxpayer - should be paying for their
and Intestate 95. The most vocal of drew reside not in Sebastian but in the mistake. The speakers at the. workshop insisted Sebastian examine its
county at 11155 Roseland Road (Kashi Ranch), at which ad.aess they plan to alternatives. Sebastian did. One is the above. Perhaps those sF tikes should
developtheir additional 35 acresisaplanned residential development. If they now omsider theirs.
are so unhappy with their present location, why compound their error!
Why not take the considerable financing to which they evid,mLly have
access (the Washinvon lawyers who they quoted at the meeting don't come
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