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� | -2- O reasonable and safe distance for the clear zone for an airport such as the one currently under consideration. • The provision of a rapid-access road for fire private property ' the airport developers, while desirable in very general terms, is prevent the esItablishment of an airport anywhere in the County. If the Commissioners Ifeel that such a road is of overriding importance, they should be prenared to institute condemnation proceedings (in favor of Mid- way or any other private airport in the County) in order to achieve this end. Otherwisle, the objective is likely to be satisfied only by luck. It is air- port. It is Unreasonable, however, to set the level of such activity as a percentage of total activities. For instance, one of the first group of customers of of operating out Of Horace Williams Airport, and, depending upon the order in which these acOvities transferred, training flights might well exceed 50% in the early stages, even though only a handful of flights per day were involved. It ld be more suitable to institute controls based upon numbers rather thOn percentages, and a reasonable basis for such numbers would be the a tiVitv levels now in effect at Horace Williams Airport. ��!| We believe that it is only a matter of time until an accident Occurs in c1nitv of the Horace Williams Airport with consequences far greater than those of the recent four orasheS. The dangers from such accidents in 8 as with very low population densities are far less than from accidents in the fully built-up areas that surround Horace Williams Airport. We ask the Commissioners to consider carefully the consequences {� of such an event as they weigh the proposals before them. | ` m� kYn^ � K7- /; / � ` ' ' «°''~^�-- / Julianne M. Andresen Mary O. Penta John W. Drake ' '