Thursday, October 21, 1999
Proposed runway would displace hundreds
Boone residents hear about plan
BY PATRICK CROWLEY
The Cincinnati Enquirer
BURLINGTON — Five generations of Patricia Phillips' family have lived in the house on Ada Lane in Hebron that she now calls home. But because of construction of a new airport runway she may not be living there much longer.
Mrs. Phillips' house is one of about 220 Boone County homes that the Kenton County Airport Board will buy within the next two years if the federal government approves construction of a new north-south runway at the Cincinnati/Northern Kentucky International Airport.
“I hate this,” Mrs. Phillips, 38, said during a Wednesday night workshop on how the airport's runway plans.
“I don't want to move, but that new runway is going right through my house,” she said. “I love that house. My family has been there since 1958.”
The airport board has proposed building a new 8,000-foot north-south runway on the west side of the airport, as well as a 2,000-extension of the existing 10,000-foot east/west runway.
The construction is needed because of a projected increase in flights and to cut down on delays, airport officials have said. The Federal Aviation Administration is studying plans for building the runway and should decide by the end of next year.
More than 200 people attended Wednesday night's workshop, which was sponsored by the airport board. A second workshop will be held tonightin Delhi Township from 5:30 to 7:30 p.m. at the Delhi Senior Center on Neeb Road.
The workshops are designed to provide residents information about how the airport plans to deal with not just construction of the runway, but how residents in Kentucky and Ohio will be affected by noise from planes using the runway.
Those plans include providing sound insulation to about 300 Kentucky homes and establishing new flight patterns to keep as few jets as possible over populated areas.
Mark Klosterman attended the workshop to see how his home in the Oakbrook subdivision south of airport will be affected.
After looking over airport charts and maps chock full of technical jargon, flight path lines, noise contours and numbers, Mr. Klosterman still wasn't sure whether a lot of planes will be flying over his house.
“I'm right in line with the new runway, and from what I can see they are telling me we won't get a lot of noise,” said Mr. Klosterman, 42, who works in computer information systems.
“But it's all so confusing. These maps are hard to read and statistics can tell you anything you want. So I really still don't know what to truly expect,” he said.
Boone County Administrator Jim Parsons said the county is concerned about an increase of late-night flights with the new runway and the east/west runway expansion.
“So many of those flights could be coming in after midnight,” Mr. Parsons said.
“Boone County is concerned about that. The airport has been an economic boon to the county, but it's all been good for the whole region,” he said. “Yet Boone County gets a disproportionate share of the problems, and it's been that way for quite some time.”
Ohio residents also are worried about getting more planes.
“It looks to me like Sayler Park is going to get an increase in air traffic with the new runway,” said Mary Newman, a resident of that Cincinnati neighborhood that planes often fly over.
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