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Tuesday’s Tip

 Paulding moves ahead on airport

Paulding County, in a holding pattern for five years while waiting to build an airport, seems cleared for landing.

The Paulding County Airport Authority and the county just got a second $1 million allocation from Congress. They are scouting for land west of Dallas.

If things continue to go well, Jerry Shearin, the chairman of the County Commission, thinks the authority and county could buy land in 2005.

"The million dollars tells us Congress is serious about supporting us," he said. An initial $1 million allocation came earlier this year.

The county also hopes to get an additional $500,000 in federal money in 2005. It can be used for engineering and planning.

Shearin and other county leaders hope an airport will attract business and become an economic engine for the county, much like Cobb County's McCollum Field. It employs 195 people and generates direct and indirect economic impacts of $71 million annually.

Many metro Atlanta airports are squeezed for space. Shearin said Paulding wants to avoid that by acquiring a tract of at least 500 acres.

Blake Swafford, head of Paulding County's transportation department, said it has completed environmental studies on property about four miles west of Dallas and south of U.S. 278. The county has submitted the proposed site to the Federal Aviation Administration for approval and hopes to hear back early next year.

The cost for a 5,000-foot runway and supporting building is estimated to be $14 million.

The federal government can pay up to 95 percent of an airport's cost. The state and county will be responsible for the remaining 5 percent.

Shearin said the county is committed to building the airport without raising taxes. A $3 million bond referendum to build an airport in 1999 failed.

Since then, the county worked to get itself included in the national airport coverage plan, and a state Department of Transportation study recommended that Paulding build an airport. Being included in the national plan opened Paulding up for the federal funding.

Ed Ratigan, the manager for the state Department of Transportation's Airport Programs, said the process is moving along well for Paulding.

"I feel very confident it will proceed and there will be an airport constructed," he said.

BYLINE:    CHRISTOPHER QUINN

DATE: December 20, 2004
PUBLICATION: Atlanta Journal-Constitution, The (GA)
EDITION: Home; The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
SECTION: Horizon
PAGE: F2

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