Aug 1, 2024 | Aurora Airport Expansion
AURORA, OR: Today the nonprofit land-use conservation organization Friends of French Prairie announces the establishment of a people’s petition opposed to the planned expansion of the Aurora State Airport. Ben Williams, President of Friends of French Prairie, said...
May 25, 2024 | Aurora Airport Expansion
Should citizens, members of the public, have the legal right to challenge government decisions or seek enforcement when a government agency chooses not to comply with the law! Not according to a recent Circuit Court ruling which not only challenges that public right,...
May 17, 2024 | Aurora Airport Expansion
In November of 2021 the Oregon Dept. of Aviation (ODAV) launched a new master planning process using Century West Engineering as their aviation consultant and JLA Public Involvement as their facilitator. As we reported to members in an email at the time: On Tuesday,...
Dec 13, 2021 | Aurora Airport Expansion
On Thursday, December 9, Oregon’s Supreme Court delivered their ruling on the Petition for Review of the earlier Court of Appeals decision. The ruling was strikingly terse: The court has considered the petition for review and orders that it be denied. The central...
Nov 22, 2021 | Public Advisory Committee
[Updated: December 15, 2021] The First PAC meeting which kicked off the public phase of the new master planning process for the Aurora Airport was held on Nov. 16 via Zoom. The majority of the meeting was comprised of presentations by the facilitator from JLA...