Wednesday, April 1, 2009
Another Eyerly heard from.
http://www.tribune-georgian.com/articles/2009/04/01/opinion/letters/06letter4.1.txt
Show of hands: (figuratively - comments would be better) How many of you actually believe that tourists arrive in downtown St. Marys in private planes, via the St. Marys Airport, and stay in local hotels and eat at local restaurants?
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Very Laughable!
Not many, if any....
But I think the main point is the Eyerlys don't want the airport to move without further clarity.
Alot of people feel this way.
If the cloud of suspicion was'nt place there with Deborah Hase having a meeting before the meeting with the Attorney of Sea Island, I don't think you would have as much opposition. But alot of people smell a rat called Charlie Smith/Sea Island.
Suppose that the airpoirt is moved to the Billyville Road location. Furthere suppose that it is built with a combination of state and federal funds, including the proceeds fromt he sale fof the old airport.
Now, here are some potentila results. The old airport property, under new ownership, would immediately go back ont he city / county tax rolls and the taxes would increase as the property was developed. People would be hired for the construction on the property. The addition of new homes and businesses on that 400 acres would have a tremendous positive economic impact on St. Marys and the entire county.
AS a result of the new airport, Sea Ilsand and others foinaly start the long anticioated north end boom in earnest. Sea Island builds a high end, fly-in community. A lot of wealthy, empty nesters (no school age kids -just lots of diposable income.) Builders employ every tradesman for miles around. Buinsesses spring up int eh norht end to service the needs of all the new residents. There is a huge positive economic impact on the economy of the entire county.
Now, on the negative side -
according to some class envious types - Charlie Smith makes another million and Deborah Hase (a sales agent - not a broker) gets her share of the real estate sales activity. Do we really want to forgo everthing that could happen in the preceeding paragraphs just to prevent the events described in this paragraph- and to cause a temporary disruption in Greg Bird's highly tax-payer subsidized business? Does that make any economic sense whatsoever?
Why is this okay, but what Greg Bird is doing, not okay. They are all fleecing the taxpayers.
Charlie Smith makes another million and Deborah Hase (a sales agent - not a broker) gets her share of the real estate sales activity.
Nail,meet hammer.
Could you tell us specifically how Charlei Smith and /or Deborah Hase are fleecing the tax-payer in the matter of potentially moving the airport and building a new one on land donated for that purpose by the Sea Island Company. Draw up a bill of specific charges, please.
Right now I don't think many tourists come here by small plane. They don't come here by car either. However, I will not support any more land developers in this county. We don't need any more houses. We need businesses and industry that will hire the people that already live here. We don't need one more house on one more stripped piece of land.
The county commissioners and city commissioners have not dealt with past developers in having them pay impact fees. Had these developers paid impact fees and paid for the infrastructure of this county, I might feel differently. As it is now we are paying taxes for infrastructure for people who were supposed to come and never have.
Moving the airport is simply for the benefit of another developer. If an airport is not important as you and others feel then why is it important for Sea Island? Because you follow the money trail that general aviation generates. Not all small airports are bad and if a community developes around an airport, the community usually grows in different ways.
This community has not grown because it never has had vision. I hope it will someday but because no one can see past the sea of roof tops, the vision may never be seen.
St. Marys upper crust has always thought that they had more going on than what they really do! What exactly do they have? Cumberland Island speaks for itself and they manage to skim a little off of that. They don't have any decent restaurants, save Lang's, or Sonic! All that is left are a couple of old houses and a million dollar waterfront park, where the sand gnats feed better than the resaurants do. Oh yeah, there's the airport. My family and I plan a big outing to the airport every weekend to watch the squadrons of fly-in tourists landing their rigs in the middle of an old delapidated industrial park that doesn't support any industry. What is it? Two guys who have a business related interest in the airport? I guess those with the most tickets rule the merry-go-round! St. Marys needs to clean up their act and their city. Look around at all of the old rundown buildings that should be torn down if for no other reason but to beautify a pretty little town. I'm sure that the fire department could use some practice! Since the mill has gone, most of the big businesses have folded or moved to Kingsland. There is no unification down there. everyone wants to do their own thing and that is the only thing that matters. Pretty soon yall will have to unify, because you are greeding yourselves right out of your pretty little town. Selfishness and greed will be the undoing of a pretty little town called St. Marys!
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