Shorten the runway and you have fewer takeoffs and landings, shorten the runway and you enhance safety and reduce the noise, ... It also reduces the justification for the buyout as it is now being proposed.
We have an entire neighborhood completely engulfed in noise and a runway protection zone. I have people that would gladly go and tear up that pavement and carry it away for free.
Their errors have been costly to Martin County taxpayers, and an escalating seven-year disaster for the neighborhood in the runway protection zone and airport users,