Oregon Dept. of Aviation Open House

The Oregon Department of Aviation is conducting a Public Open House regarding the new Draft Aurora State Airport Master Plan on Thursday, June 13. This event takes place 4-7 pm at North Marion High School Commons (20167 Grim Rd NE, Aurora). 

Six of seven alternatives for the new Draft Aurora State Airport Master Plan propose to:

• Expand the Airport’s direct impact on neighboring communities by lengthening runway, increasing size of aircraft, and ignoring problems with overflights, noise, sewage, pollution, underground fuel storage, uncertain firefighting capacity and earthquake-prone soils — Is this the future that we want for our communities?
• Extend the Airport runway by 500 feet to over 5,500 feet long to allow larger, heavier aircraft to land and take-off with more fuel — Main revenue source for Oregon Department of Aviation is tax on aviation fuel; so more fuel sales means more $ money $ for government agency, despite negative impacts to residents, environment and climate change.
• Ignore over nine years’ worth of actual Airport control tower flight operations data to estimate future Airport growth; rather Draft Plan uses inflated population growth projection of Clackamas and Marion Counties — False correlation between general population growth of counties and Airport without public commercial-passenger air service.
• Deprive citizens of the right to appeal the FAA Airport Operations Forecast that calls for expansion — By preventing public challenge, agencies appear to do as they please without being answerable to citizens.

The City has been actively engaged with the Oregon Department of Aviation for more than 10 years regarding planning and management of the Aurora State Airport, which is located immediately south of Wilsonville. 

Wilsonville City Councilor Dr. Joann Linville serves as the City’s representative to the Master Plan Planning Advisory Committee (PAC); the City's Community Development Director, Chris Neamtzu, is the alternate.

For more information about the new Draft Aurora State Airport Master Plan, see:

• City of Wilsonville: ci.wilsonville.or.us/asa
• https://publicproject.net/AuroraAirport#