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affected areas relating to sales, rentals, vacancies, expense items and other factors, and comparisons were then made with properties in the general area that were considered not to be affected.  An analysis was made of the relationship of values between the properties inside and those outside the affected areas;and from this analysis a comparative percentage base was established.  This percentage was then applied to properties in the affected areas after taking into account the relation of the specific location to the actual touchdown point.

Some such approach as this has the merit of, to a degree, charging the community at large, which derives such great benefit from the existence of the airport, for whatever declines in real estate values are suffered by those in the affected areas.  The same end might be achieved to an ever greater degree by appraising not only the residential properties adversely affected but also the commercial, business, industrial and other properties in the affected areas which are benefited by the airport, and increasing the assessments on them.  In fact, it may be that taxpayers in the community at large would have good cause for complaining that it is illegal not to reappraise upwards the properties whose values are increased by the nearby airport, and, indeed, it is possible (the fact of the matter not being known) that such is being done.  However, the publicity has related to

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