Thursday, August 03, 2000
Decision on Lunken is delayed
Citizens board to watch growth
By Robert Anglen
The Cincinnati Enquirer
Development at Lunken Airport has been grounded for 30 days while a citizens board is formed to oversee airport operations and growth.
Responding to complaints from east-side residents about noise and pollution, Cincinnati City Council voted unanimously Wednesday in favor of the moratorium.
The most immediate impact on residents living in Linwood, Mount Lookout and Mount Washington would have been a temporary freeze on plans to fly Boeing 737s into Lunken as part of billionaire investor Warren Buffet's charter jet company.
But officials of Executive Jet Management told a packed council chambers Wednesday that they already had backed off those plans.
In almost the same breath, Kathy Tyler, vice president of public relations, acknowledged that another Buffet company would seek permission to land 737s at the airport.
And that would not be covered by the moratorium.
She called Executive Jet Aviation a separate company from Executive Jet Manage ment “with separate management, goals and plans.”
The likelihood of landings anytime soon is remote, Ms. Tyler said, because the company has not taken possession of the 25 jets purchased for the fleet.
“What we are asking city administrators to do is apply the brakes,” said Councilman Todd Portune, who introduced the motion.
Although last year Mr. Portune said the airport was underused and sought expansion that would allow commercial aircraft to operate out of Lunken, he has recently been critical of airport development. He has said administrators have not paid enough attention to residents.
“This gives citizens affected by it a meaningful voice to what happens at the airport,” he said Wednesday.
Residents, however, questioned if 30 days was enough time to appoint a board and wade through the morass of bureaucratic regulations surrounding airport use.
“It's unfair to give only 30 days,” said Linwood resident Karl Tauer, one of nearly 100 residents who gathered outside the council chambers after the vote.
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