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..i <br />,ti'eF /~ <br />l <br />Mr. Mehler: There were "none of this size." He said most were associated <br />ith a commercial airport, such as RDU. He said basically, they had looked,at <br />~he Chapel Hill situation and made projections based on that. We noted that he <br />~ad examined the Triangle J's Airport Study and the County's Airport Study to <br />ascertain need. <br />i Commissioner Gustaveson: Continued, there was no private airport that you <br />looked at. <br />j Mr. Mehler: Said situations were "never equal." He said that general aviation <br />airports are considered desirable in most parts of the country and that those <br />i.rports were surrounded by planned development, "commercial, office, industrial." <br />Commissioner Gustaveson: "But did you find one example of this size?" <br />Mr. Mehler: "Not on the Eastern Seaboard." <br />Commissioner Gustaveson: Asked if this would 6e one of .the largest private <br />irports on the Eastern Seaboard. <br />Mr. Mehler: Said that he didn't know and had not "investigated" that. <br />Planning Board Chair Pat Crawford: Asked if there would be aqy restrictions <br />regarding access during non business hours, as she noted the loop road: <br />Mr. Mehler: Replied that Mr. Matthews had first suggested a crossover access <br />situation and later changed to a loop road. He noted that 99% of those using the <br />crossover would be pilots and that many general aviation airports use this means <br />of hangar access. <br />Ms. Crawford: Asked if access to the aiport would be restricted, assuming that <br />the airport would not be under constant operation. <br />Mr. Mehler: Noted that there there several things they had done to make this <br />operation .more feasible: 1) increased the number of planes; Z) "initiated the <br />possibility of maintenance fees; 3) "and eliminated some things like fencing, that <br />were originally in the project." <br />Ms. Crawford: Asked if Mr. Mehler would explain in a little more detail, the <br />maintenance fees. <br />Mr. Mehler: Mr. Hazard, he replied, would 6e the person to ask .those questions, <br />since he had done the calculations on the fees. Ms. Crawford said she would hold <br />her questions on that topic. <br />Planning Board Member Irvin: Said he had two questions, the first if the <br />Buck Mountain Development, listed as Inc., was incorporated in North Carolina. <br />