[Scan-DC] Plane down Gaithersburg

[Bruce Harper]

On Mon, Dec 8, 2014 at 2:36 PM, Doug  wrote:

> Airpark opened in 19
​60 [correction noted]​
- houses there were built in the 1980s... people interviewed are already
yelling about the airpark.

​This came up on another list I'm on, where some Roanoke County residents
had filed suit against Appalachian Power and Norfolk Southern because APCO
had cut down trees in their right of way (between the railroad and the back
yards). The residents complained that the power line that was built was
unsightly and the lack of trees made the trains visible (and increased the
coal dust landing on their houses). They tried to change things based on an
adverse condemnation. NS kicked it to the Surface Transportation Board,
which ruled that interstate commerce (plus the fact that the railroad was
there long before the subdivision) trumped local and state laws.

Bottom line is how it is interesting how people are blindfolded and forced
at gunpoint to buy houses next to railroads, airports, farms, etc. Once
they see where they are (next to something that existed long before their
arrival), they complain and want things changed, removed, or shut down.

Bruce in Blacksburg
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