Aurora Airport Expansion

The 2020 Wilsonville election for City Councilor and Mayor will undoubtedly go down as one for the record books! At least in terms of the amount of outside money coming in and the brazen manner in which Aurora Airport interests are funding candidates to take control...

One of the interesting events to observe in the past three years has been the number of times that the Wilsonville Chamber of Commerce, and the leadership of the Aurora Airport Improvement Association, along with Ted Millar of TLM Holdings (owner of Southend Airpark...

On Wednesday, August 11, in the second Special Session of 2020, the Legislature faced with a $1.2 Billion deficit due to lost revenue from the COVID-19 economic downturn cut the budgets of many important State government programs.. As reported in The Oregonian, most...

Dept. of Aviation held a hearing on “land use compatibility” regarding the Aurora Airport Master Plan in Salem on September 24. Following the hearing, testimony was consolidated by ODA staff and sent to the Aviation Board for their meeting on October 31 in...

The Oregon Dept. of Aviation, under the oversight of the Oregon Board of Aviation, have been overseeing an update to the Master Plan for the Aurora State Airport. This multi-year process is separate from the Federal Aviation Administration decision to place an air...

Based on the legal opinion that the recant letter sent by Director Betty Stansbury on August 21, 2019 constituted the “land use decision” on the 2012 Aurora Airport Master Plan, FOFP has filed a LUBA appeal. The letter ostensibly sought to clarify and correct Director...

Using recently available ACTUAL objective data from the FAA Air Traffic Activity Data System (ATADS) FOFP is now able to compare projected growth in Total Operations and Based Aircraft found in the 2012 Aurora Airport Master Plan with what has actually occurred. These...

Oregon Dept. of Aviation announced they are holding a meeting on Sept. 24 in Salem, from 3:00 to 5:00 PM to gather "information on the compatibility of the Master Plan with applicable land use plans and statewide planning goals." Written testimony will be accepted,...

On August 21, 2019, Betty Stansbury, Director of the Dept of Aviation sent a letter to FOFP’s land use attorney in which she "clarified and corrected" all her previous statements about the Aurora Airport Master Plan, now claiming that it had, in fact, been approved...

In advance of the August 1 Oregon State Aviation Board meeting, a new document appeared as part of the read-ahead material for Aviation Board members. That document, the new Dept. of Aviation Master Plan Process flowchart, aims to define agency master planning so it...