Re: Throwing fuel on the SDL airport noise fire...
Letters to the editor, pretty funny, regarding the City of Scottsdale and it's plan to put up signs in Scottsdale neighborhoods warning residents of airplane noise.:
The anti-SDL airport side:
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Just who you callin' stupid?
May. 19, 2005 12:00 AM
In response to "Airport panel OKs signs" (Scottsdale Republic, Friday), in which Mike Osborne, a member of the Scottsdale Airport Advisory Commission, was quoted as saying: "It's not our job to protect people from their own stupidity":
Who's stupid? Doesn't Osborne realize that members of Scottsdale's Planning Commission and City Council are the people who approved development of residential communities within three miles of the airport?
Shouldn't Osborne be calling them stupid?
Scottsdale residents affected by airport noise are tired of being called stupid by know-nothing, do-nothing bureaucrats. Osborne has proved that he is the stupid one and, if city officials had any guts, they would publicly reprimand him for his insensitive remarks. - Nick Luongo
Scottsdale
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....moron that doesn't want to take responsibility for his own actions. I went back and forth with this idiot at one of the airport meetings a while ago.
And the SDL supporters:
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Airport signs for the not very smart
May. 26, 2005 12:00 AM
Scottsdale Municipal Airport has been around for more than 50 years. It's the second-busiest single-runway, general-aviation airport in the country, and the city has grown up around it. It's just a fact of life.
Anybody with half of a brain knows it's there, and yet people buy homes around it and then complain about aircraft noise. What total and absolute nonsense.
The hue and cry from these moronic homeowners has gotten so loud that the Airport Advisory Commission has made a recommendation to install signs around the airport, warning of aircraft noise ("Airport panel OKs signs," May 13). That recommendation is being referred to the city's Transportation Department and the City Council's Subcommittee on Regional Aviation Issues.
I thought Scottsdale was a community of halfway intelligent people, but when it takes an advisory board, a transportation department and a City Council subcommittee to advise residents that there's an airport in town, perhaps folks aren't as smart as I thought. - Gary H. Boyd
Scottsdale
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Don't blame the seller
May. 26, 2005 12:00 AM
Letters to the editor regarding whether somebody is "stupid" or not for buying homes close to Scottsdale Municipal Airport brought back some memories ("Just who you callin' stupid?" May 19).
In 1989 or 1990, we were looking at UDC model homes in the Ironwood Village development when it became obvious that we were under a flight path. In a conversation with the agent, we were told that UDC was building the same models farther north (near Pima and Happy Valley roads), but they cost more because they weren't under a flight path. We elected to buy near Pima and Happy Valley roads (not a UDC home) and have seen huge appreciation in our investments.
You shouldn't blame the seller when you buy on the cheap or make a bad decision. - Frank E. Daggett
Scottsdale
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Buyers responsible
May. 26, 2005 12:00 AM
After reading Nick Luongo's letter to the editor ("Just who you callin' stupid?" May 19), one of my favorite films, Field of Dreams, came to mind.
As we seem to progressively lose our collective minds in this country, common sense - that old stalwart of awareness and perception in human behavior - sadly is going the way of the dinosaur. Luongo evidently believes that if a house is built near an airport, they not only will come, but they have to come.
There are many people - myself included - who don't mind at all living near a small airport like Scottsdale's. These are the people who should buy these homes. The issue isn't that there are homes near the airport - this fact alone doesn't make the builder or the City Council member or the planner or anyone but the buyer responsible (or what Luongo refers to as "stupid") for the purchase.
To me, most of this airport noise emotion and "stupidity" could be resolved with our use of common sense and self-responsibility. For Luongo to completely miss the mark and call people names, blaming the homes in essence for the problem, is like blaming the weapon for the crime. Just who would look "stupid" if that were so?
Dave Miller
Phoenix
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Letters to the editor, pretty funny, regarding the City of Scottsdale and it's plan to put up signs in Scottsdale neighborhoods warning residents of airplane noise.:
The anti-SDL airport side:
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Just who you callin' stupid?
May. 19, 2005 12:00 AM
In response to "Airport panel OKs signs" (Scottsdale Republic, Friday), in which Mike Osborne, a member of the Scottsdale Airport Advisory Commission, was quoted as saying: "It's not our job to protect people from their own stupidity":
Who's stupid? Doesn't Osborne realize that members of Scottsdale's Planning Commission and City Council are the people who approved development of residential communities within three miles of the airport?
Shouldn't Osborne be calling them stupid?
Scottsdale residents affected by airport noise are tired of being called stupid by know-nothing, do-nothing bureaucrats. Osborne has proved that he is the stupid one and, if city officials had any guts, they would publicly reprimand him for his insensitive remarks. - Nick Luongo
Scottsdale
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....moron that doesn't want to take responsibility for his own actions. I went back and forth with this idiot at one of the airport meetings a while ago.
And the SDL supporters:
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Airport signs for the not very smart
May. 26, 2005 12:00 AM
Scottsdale Municipal Airport has been around for more than 50 years. It's the second-busiest single-runway, general-aviation airport in the country, and the city has grown up around it. It's just a fact of life.
Anybody with half of a brain knows it's there, and yet people buy homes around it and then complain about aircraft noise. What total and absolute nonsense.
The hue and cry from these moronic homeowners has gotten so loud that the Airport Advisory Commission has made a recommendation to install signs around the airport, warning of aircraft noise ("Airport panel OKs signs," May 13). That recommendation is being referred to the city's Transportation Department and the City Council's Subcommittee on Regional Aviation Issues.
I thought Scottsdale was a community of halfway intelligent people, but when it takes an advisory board, a transportation department and a City Council subcommittee to advise residents that there's an airport in town, perhaps folks aren't as smart as I thought. - Gary H. Boyd
Scottsdale
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Don't blame the seller
May. 26, 2005 12:00 AM
Letters to the editor regarding whether somebody is "stupid" or not for buying homes close to Scottsdale Municipal Airport brought back some memories ("Just who you callin' stupid?" May 19).
In 1989 or 1990, we were looking at UDC model homes in the Ironwood Village development when it became obvious that we were under a flight path. In a conversation with the agent, we were told that UDC was building the same models farther north (near Pima and Happy Valley roads), but they cost more because they weren't under a flight path. We elected to buy near Pima and Happy Valley roads (not a UDC home) and have seen huge appreciation in our investments.
You shouldn't blame the seller when you buy on the cheap or make a bad decision. - Frank E. Daggett
Scottsdale
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Buyers responsible
May. 26, 2005 12:00 AM
After reading Nick Luongo's letter to the editor ("Just who you callin' stupid?" May 19), one of my favorite films, Field of Dreams, came to mind.
As we seem to progressively lose our collective minds in this country, common sense - that old stalwart of awareness and perception in human behavior - sadly is going the way of the dinosaur. Luongo evidently believes that if a house is built near an airport, they not only will come, but they have to come.
There are many people - myself included - who don't mind at all living near a small airport like Scottsdale's. These are the people who should buy these homes. The issue isn't that there are homes near the airport - this fact alone doesn't make the builder or the City Council member or the planner or anyone but the buyer responsible (or what Luongo refers to as "stupid") for the purchase.
To me, most of this airport noise emotion and "stupidity" could be resolved with our use of common sense and self-responsibility. For Luongo to completely miss the mark and call people names, blaming the homes in essence for the problem, is like blaming the weapon for the crime. Just who would look "stupid" if that were so?
Dave Miller
Phoenix
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