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1�� �� 421.$ 2. 3, 4. he's goning to sell the house for." 5, Mr. Irvin: "I accept your answer." He added that he was trying to get at 6. 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, not 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, Il, I'll do it'" I2+ Commissioner Whitted, referring to his list of sworn persons, asked Ms, 13. Miriam Singer if she wished to give evidence. Ms. Miriam Singer, Route l, Bingham Township: Said that s h e an d h er son had I5° recently bought an old farm in Bingham Township and at present was leasing ten 16^ acres to a local farmer. She said a few years earlier she had lived near a private 17. airport and on that experience was contesting Buck Mountain's assertion that the 18. airport would not "adversely affect adjacent land." She said she had lived with Ig, airplanes buzzing over her head and even now finds that airplanes are an intrusion 20" and a "source of noise pollution." ?I. She continued that she is "appalled" to find that the developers plan to 22, have nearly 300 planes hangared there. She questioned how many others would be 23~ "just sitting on the field, I'm still not sure and I haven't learned anything more 24, tonight." She feels that any airplane, "even the small ones" are a "serious and 25, constant disturbance" and would 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 27" 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 29. airport planned for that site. 30, Dr. Thomas Griggs, representing the Orange Grove Fire Department Board of ]I. 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 33, Fire Department on the Midway Airport. Dr. Griggs said that Mr. Johnson had 34° requested that the letter be presented by another member of the Fire Department 35° since he, Mr. Johnson, wished to comment on the Midway Airport from another per- 36. spective. ]T° Dr. Griggs said that the "firefighters have a considerable degree of anxiety" 38, over the proposed Midway Airport. He noted that the department was originally 39.