May 19, 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 4, 2021 | Aurora Airport Expansion
Following the submission of Petitions for Review to the Supreme Court by the Oregon Dept. of Aviation and the Intervenors (commercial interests at the airport), we (the original appellants in the Court of Appeals appeal) have the opportunity to submit our own response...
Oct 21, 2021 | Aurora Airport Expansion
Two significant environmental occurrences happened in October 2021 concerning Aurora Airport and its impacts on the citizens and lands surrounding it. Forever chemicals at Aurora Airport First, the Statesman Journal published an article on the 20th titled “EPA...
Oct 15, 2021 | Aurora Airport Expansion
After much discussion about the impacts of the Court of Appeals ruling during the summer Aviation Board meetings, a decision was finally made that surprised no one. The commercial interests at Aurora Airport mounted an all-out full court press on the Aviation Board...
