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~. 2. 3• 14.9 ~~~. . ~~~ 1}. he's gbning to sell the house for." 5. Mr. Irvin: "I accept your answer." .He added that he was trying to get•at b. what "qualification" Mr. Hazard was putting on his estimate. 7. Mr. Kizer: ,Said that based on Mr. Hazard's answers thus far, "you are planning 8. to sell hangars, nat lease?" - q. Mr. Hazard: "No. Our plan is to make money off of the hangars. Now whether I can 10. make more money by leasing them, I'll do it; if I make more money by selling it, 11.. I'll do it." 1 2,c' Commissioner Whitted, referring to his list of sworn persons, asked Ms. 1 3. Miriam Singer if she wished to give evidence. ~,~.. Ms. Miriam Singer, Route 1, Bingham Township: Said that she and her son had ls. recently bought an old'farm in Bingham Township and at present was leasing ten 7.6. acres to a local farmer. She said a few years earlier she had lived near a private 1 7. airport and on that experience was contesting Buck Mountain's assertion that the 1 8. airport would not "adversely affect adjacent land." She said she had lived with 14. airplanes buzzing over her head and even.now finds that airplanes are an intrusion ?0. and a "source of noise pollution." _._-.''-1. She continued that she-is "appalled" to find that the developers plan to 2 2. have nearly 300 planes hangared there. She questioned how many others would be 23. "just sitting an the field, T'm still not sure and I haven't learned anything mare 2~.. tonight." She feels that any airplane, "even the small ones" are a "serious and 2$. constant disturbance" and mould adversely affect the use of her home. She added 26. that the effect of the proposed airport on highway 54 traffic was also of major 2 7, concern to her as she uses that highway now and finds that it is sometimes "hectic 28. and rough.." She urged, for the reasons cited above, denial of the permit for any 2 q. airport planned for that site. 30. Dr. Thomas Griggs, representing the Orange Grove Fire Department Board of 3Z. Directors: Submitted a letter from Mr. Edward Johnson, President of that Fire --..32; Department, dated June 24, 1982, which outlined the position of the Orange Grove 33o~Fire Department on the Midway Airport. Dr. Griggs said that Mr. Johnson had 3j}~ requested that the letter be presented 6y another member of the Fire Department 35. since he, Mr. Johnson, wished to comment on the Midway Airport from another per- 36. spective. 37~ Dr. Griggs said that the "firefighters have a considerable degree of anxiety" 3$0 over the proposed Midway Airport. He noted that the department was originally 39. 40.