Editor,
On Thursday Feb. 15, 2018, the Biddeford Municipal Airport Commission voted unanimously to start eminent domain procedures against homeowner(s) refusing to sign the easements to allow the airport to remove any and all trees to bring the entire aircraft approach zone at that end to FAA standards.
This is another example of the FAA exerting its power over the city to meet their demands. There has never been any expression of a problem with trees by the pilots.
It’s high time for the citizens to contact their ward council representative to ask him or her to vote against any eminent domain procedure and put this to an end.
We still need to get a report on what other use we could get from the 127 acres at the airport as was requested by Council Order 2015.5 on Feb. 17, 2015.
Ray Tardif
Biddeford
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