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Barrow County, Ga., eyes taking couple's property for airport.
Byline: Blake Aued
Sep. 25--The Barrow County Commission will vote today whether to take a Winder man's land to install a new landing system at the county's airport.
The county needs about 13 acres of pasture and three rental houses owned by Jimmy and Elaine Smith so the Federal Aviation Administration can install a landing system that tells pilots where they are in relation to the ideal approach to the Northeast Georgia Regional Airport near Winder, airport director Glen Boyd said.
County officials have negotiated with the Smiths to obtain the land for years with no success, and need to secure it now so the FAA can install the system next year, Boyd and Barrow County Commission Chairman Doug Garrison said.
Garrison and Boyd emphasized that the eminent domain seizure has nothing to do with a group of government officials and business leaders' push for a new or expanded airport in Northeast Georgia to relieve Hartsfield-Jackson International Airport, or separate plans to extend the Barrow airport's runway to 7,000 feet. "It's to make the airport we currently have safer for the traffic coming in and out now," Garrison said.
But today's vote has upset the Smiths and many other opponents of a possible 20- to 24-gate airport. The opposition group, Concerned Citizens of Barrow County, organized last month after hearing news that the long-dormant Northeast Georgia Surface and Air Transportation Commission was reconvening to push for a regional airport in the 12-county area.
Several members of the concerned citizens' group sent e-mails to Barrow County commissioners registering opposition to any planned airport expansion.
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