Airport
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Pennsylvania Department of
Transportation’s air traffic
division to. file a petition to
have the zoning changed to
create what is known as an
airport hazard area.
Reigle said this term,
hazard area, has been
misunderstood, by most of
the people in the area and
explained that the purpose of
the zoning would be to
prevent hazardous land uses
from developing around the
airport.
“I want to attempt to
promote public relations in
aviation, and to point out the
value of an airport to the
community,” she said. “I
want to try to clear up
misconceptions.”
What the new zoning would
call for is maximum com
patability of land use to air
traffic on the airport land
and surrounding areas. It
galls for a designated area
ioOO feet long, extending
from the end of the runway
and fanning out at an angle
15 degrees on both sides.
The fanners and others
attending the meeting heard
once again that this fan
shaped zone would give
added safety to pilots taking
off or landing at the airport.
If wind drift carried-the
plane to either side of the
area during an approach or
take off, the plane would not
run into any obstacles.
Specifically, no permanent
structure could be located
higher than 35 feet within the
hazard area. And, starting at
the end of the runway,
structures could not exceed
one foot in height for every
20 foot of set-back distance.
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Reigle pointed out there
are already federal laws that
provide for a 1000 foot
distance to be free of ob
stacles. This new zoning
would allow for 2000 feet.
The objectiveness of the
presentation then began to
disintegrate. Reigle told the
group how she had per
sonally interviewed people
who had signed a petition
against the airport rezoning.
This petition was presented
to the board of supervisors at
the April meeting.
“I asked them two
questions,” she related.
“One, who asked you to
sign? And two, did you know
what you were signing?”
The answer to the first
question, she said, was
obvious the Brandts.
Herold and Gladys Brandt,
owners of the farm adjacent
to the airport, have been the
key figures in opposing the
rezoning in that they are the
landowners most greatly
affected by the change.
Reigle went on to say that
a number of the people she
spoke to said they were
returning a favor to the
Brandts when they signed
the petition. Some, she said,
told her the Brandts were
their friends and they didn’t
want to see the farm taken
away from them.
“The petition,” said
Reigle, “was an attempt by
Brandts to create opposition
and defame the airport.”
She stated farming is a
highly compatible and
desirable land use next to an
airport.
Concerning the alleged
damages to adjacent farm
land as a result of downed
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and low flying'planes, she
said farmers get just as
much if not more damage
from snowmobile traffic,
and she said their airport
reimbursed the farmers for
any damage on the spot—no
questions asked.
Reigle’s statements
brought some audible “no’s”
from the Brandts, who said
they, never were paid back
for the damages created on
their property when a plane
hit their harrow and when
several landed in their small
grain fields.
Donald Hoffer, a neigh
boring farmer and leasee of
the Brandt farm, asked the
planning board why the
zoning had to extend to the
adjoining properties.
“I don’t think they have
the right to tell the adjoining
landowners what they can
and cannot do with their
land,” he stated.
Reigle’s attorney pointed
out there is legislation
pending in the State that will
amend the airport zoning
law to say that local
legislative boards “shall”
enact an airport zoning
ordinance, rather than its
present wording, “may”.
Harry Zinger, a township
resident, said that the air
port doesn’t want the land
except in case of an
emergency—they just want
the air space.
Joe Eckenrode, a farmer
in the township, stated that
the whole thing (zoning
revision) wouldn’t have to be
if the airport owned 3540
acres on either side of its
runway. “It’s a cheap way to
get the use of the land,” he
said.
Other statements from the
crowd included: the new
zoning was attempting to
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the Brandts and other farm
owners as far as useability.
Defending their petition,
Reigle’s attorney explained
the new zoning would not
change the procedure the
Brandts would have to follow
to erect a com bam or a silo
at the present time.
He told the group that
since their farm was zoned
in 1975 as R-l, low
residential, the Brandts
would have to request a
variance and get a permit to
do the typical farm-type
construction. He added that
it would take the same
procedure if the farm was
partially rezoned AP-1.
The Brandts, unable to
conceal their emotions, said
“It would take nerves of
steel to live where we live. ”
They spoke of incidents
where airplanes would take
off and would pass so low
over their house that the
landing lights shown in then
downstairs bedroom win
dow.
Just last week, they said, a
plane flew between the house
and barn and just barely
missed the power lines and
tree tops between their
buildings.
“People don’t realize what
we’re living with,” Brandt
stormed.
Brandt’s attorney then
asked the planning board
“whose lands are being
affected?” He pointed out
that much of the affected
land was owned by Reigles.
The attorney asked who
would police the new zoning
regulations. “The airport
people can’t police their
airport now, so who’s going
to do it—the supervisors, the
zoning board, the police?”
Harvey Krall, a farmer
whose property is in the
approach area on the op-
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posite end of the runway
from the Brandts’ farm, said
he’d like to put the noise and
the lights of the airport in the
bedrooms of each of the
zoning board members, and
they’d change their minds in
a hurry.
The board members,
consisting of several farm
ers, an agricultural
engineer, construction
contractor, carpenter, and
an engineer for Hershey
Foods, quickly pointed out
they had not made up then
minds about the petition.
They listened to the ex
perience of a local farmer
who explained that when a
utility company wanted to
use an area of his farm it
bought an easement from
him, and suggested the
board make the airport buy
the easement rather than
have it zoned.
“It would be damn cheap
for a bunch of guys like you if
you didn’t,” the farmer
added.
One of the board members
asked the Brandts and the
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Reigles to defend their
statements that the new
zoning would'devalue or not
devalue the property,
respectively.
Mrs. Brandt said she had
been told by realtors that
their farm had already lost
$lOOO an acre in value.
With one last appeal from
a neighbor that the board
protect every individual, the
meeting was closed.
The board members, with
arms folded across their
chests, leaned against the
conference table, and
discussed the pros and cons
in low tones.
In the mean time, the
group of farmers gathered in
the lobby and rather loudly
discussed their opinions.
When the board members
huddle broke up after
roughly twenty minutes of
discussion, the president
Paul Geib announced they
were deadlocked in their
decision, and would meet
again next Wednesday to
finalize their recom
mendations.
legal action can contact the
Committee’s organizers.
They include Willard Roth,
R 3 Box 148, Coopersßurg PA
18036. Roth’s telephone
number is 215/967-1821.
Also organizing the legal
action is Harold Snyder, 2401
N. sth Street, Perkasie PA
18944. His telephone number
is 215/257-7582.
The two men are at
tempting to locate other
preferred stockholders.
They are soliciting
inquiries from others who
may be interested in their
legal action. They have
retained a corporate at
torney to argue their case.
below the previous week and
two percent below the same
week a year earlier.
Average placements during
the past nine weeks were vir
tually unchanged from a
year ago. “
Broiler-fryers slaughtered
in Pennsylvania under
federal inspection during the
week ending April 30 totaled
2,109,000, with an average
liveweight of 4.03 pounds.