Mark A. Leuzinger

Document ID: FAA-2012-0754-0006
Document Type: Public Submission
Agency: Federal Aviation Administration
Received Date: August 14 2012, at 12:00 AM Eastern Daylight Time
Date Posted: August 14 2012, at 12:00 AM Eastern Standard Time
Comment Start Date: July 30 2012, at 12:00 AM Eastern Standard Time
Comment Due Date: August 29 2012, at 11:59 PM Eastern Standard Time
Tracking Number: 810d3f99
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This is comment on Proposed Rule

Airport Improvement Program: Policy Regarding Access to Airports from Residential Property

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I encourage the FAA to be reasonable in their upcoming final rule-making and am registering my support for several aspects of the FAA’s current, less extreme approach to RTTF airparks. I strongly support: 1. Treating residential through-the-fence airparks as assets, not liabilities, for their adjacent public use airports. Airparks can provide enhanced airport security and a buffer against noise complaints from surrounding residential neighborhoods. 2. Treating general aviation airports differently (more leniently) than commercial service airports in regard to easements for runway access, by permitting 20 year easements for runway access, as opposed to simple licenses or other less-defensible agreements 3. Letting local airports set the runway access fees for General Aviation RTTF airpark property owners to match the airport’s commercial tie-down fees, not the much higher airport hangar-rental fees.