HomeMy WebLinkAboutResolutions - 1962.02.06 - 19786Miscellaneous Resolution 1 'V February 6, 1962
BY; Mr. Rowston (Aviation Committee)
IN RE: REPORT OF AVIATION COMMITTEE
To the Oakland County Board of Supervisors
Mr. Chairman, Ladies and Gentlemen:
At the meeting of the Board last August, the report on Air Transportation Require-
ments of the Southeastern Michigan Metropolitan Area as prepared by Landrum & Brown
of Cincinnati, Ohio, for the Inter-County Committee was accepted "as the basis for
further study" by the Aviation Committee. The Landrum & Brown report, as you may
recall, recommended for Southeastern Michigan "a second malor inter-area airline
air service center . . . for development during 1970 to 1975 . . in the general area
of Pontiac." In accordance with the action of the Board, the Aviation Committee has
continued deliberations on various means to implement this report as it affects the County.
After the Board action in August, your Aviation Committee requested the County
Planning Commission to make ci thorough study of alternate sites for location of such a
facility within the County. The possibility of expanding the Pontiac Airport was considered
but found not to be feasible. The Planning Commission selected as the best site the area
surrounding the Allen Airport which is located in Orion Township. The entire site as
shown on the site plan prepared by the County Planning Commission includes an area of
land in Pontiac and Orion Townships generally bounded by Giddings Road - Brown Road -
Silver Bell Road.
Your Committee and other County representatives have had informal discussions
with representatives of both the Michigan Department of Aeronautics and the Federal
Aviation Agency which have been of assistance in the selection of the proposed site shown
on the drawing.
The purpose of the proposed airport, as stated in an application which your Committee
has heretofore filed with the Federal Aviation Agency, is as follows:
New public use airport to serve Oakland, Macomb and Northern
Wayne Counties. To be for Airline and General aviation use. Located
and oriented so as to be capable of becoming the second inter—area airline
service center for the metropolitan area.'
In order to implement the plan, the Aviation Committee invited Mr. James M.
Robbins, President of the Jim Robbins Company of Royal Oak and Troy, to head a Special
Industrial Aviation Committee. Other members of the Industrial Aviation Committee are
Merritt Hill, Ford Motor Company Vice President; Peter J. Monaghan of Monaghan, Monaghan
and Crawmer, Detroit Attorneys; Cornelius Ray ill, General Manager of Ray Industries,
Oxford; Milton K. Smith, President of Milsmith Industries, inc., Madison Heights;
William A. Ternes, President of Ternes Steel Company, and John Wall, President of
Permanent Mold Die Company, Inc.
Because of the problems involved in securing options on the properties needed to
form the nucleus for the future airport, it has been necessary for your Committee to avoid
publicity and therefore we have been unable to make advance reports to the members of
the Board on our plans.
Since the plan is being presented to the Board for the first time this morning, we
are asking that the Chairman of the Board arrange for a meeting in the near future when
there can be a further discussion of the over—all plan and when resolutions might be
proposed to the Board to implement these plans.
I am happy to report that several Committees of the Board have reviewed these
plans with us recently and we have received very favorable response to the idea. The
Ways and Means and Buildings and Grounds Committees have also indicated their general
approval of the plan to have the County take steps now to provide our residents with
adequate air transportation in the future.
ETm'er R. Johnson . Robert F. Swanson
MR. CHAIRMAN, on behalf of the Aviation Committee, I move that the
foregoing report be received and placed on file and that this matter be considered by
the Board at the next meeting.
SPECIAL AVIATION COMMITTEE