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96. See footnote 73, supra.

97. "Of considerable significance during the conduct of the study was frequent contact and consultation with various local officials of Romulus Township. The school district authorities desired help on their long-range school construction program. The township engineer needed a general framework of anticipated land uses for guidance in laying out major trunklines for water and sewer services. The planning commission and its consultants were concerned about the over-all pattern of plan uses as the study began to provide the means for shaping the pattern of compatible land use development. All were deeply concerned by the recent expansion of the airport and the resulting effects of jet aircraft operations on the community. Noise, of course, was one of the major points of their attention, but they were also disturbed by the seemingly continuous expansion of the airport in land area. Over the years, this process had deprived the Township of considerable portion of its tax base. Further, it had divided the Township into several segments and thus broken it up as a physical community.

“The deep interest, earnest cooperation, and cordial working relationships of all these agencies and officials formed a continuing and valuable factor in the conduct and primings of the study. All were bound together in the project by a common concern for the achievement of compatibility between the airport and the community as neighbors, for the safety of people on the ground and in planes, and for the advance of both the airport and the community.”

Detroit-Wayne, at 6.
Although this quotation was taken from a plan for expanding an existing airport it is equally applicable to development of new airports.

The planning and operating problems, as well as the intercommunity influence, have led some municipalities to employ the "authority" or "special district." See, Arde, Inc.

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