If you are researching candidates for your fourth vote, Rachel Rose Isaacson is one to consider based solely on her position regarding airport repurposing. We recommend also looking into her other campaign planks, experience, and campaign activity.
Here are Rachel Rose's full answers to our questionnaire.
1. What do you think the city should do about its lawsuit against the FAA to clarify how long the city is legally obligated to run the airport?
▢ Drop the lawsuit indefinitely. Keep this site an airport no matter what.
✔ Keep our legal options open. Appeal or pursue legal clarification about who controls this land when the time is ripe. Don't accept any more grants that would extend our contractual obligations to the FAA past 2040. Find other ways to fund airport needs, which amount to a fraction of a percent of the city's annual budget.
▢ I’m not prepared to answer at this time.
▢ I can’t comment for legal reasons.
▢ Other
2. Assuming that the City of Boulder establishes local control over the future of the airport site, what do you personally think is the highest and best use of these 174 city-owned acres?
▢ Airport
▢ Primarily housing / mixed use neighborhoods
▢ Primarily open space / public park
✔ The people of Boulder should decide through a public process or vote
▢ I’m not prepared to answer at this time.
▢ I can’t comment for legal reasons.
▢ Other
3. In the event that Boulder keeps the airport (either because of judicial decision or city decision), what kind of airport should we have?
▢ About the same as we have now
▢ Smaller! There are already too many flights out of Boulder airport. Keep it safe but minimal.
▢ Bigger! We should expand the airport with more tenants and better facilities and attract more aviation activity to Boulder.
▢ I’m not prepared to answer at this time.
▢ I can’t comment for legal reasons.
✔ Other
Elaboration - I'd like to see more partnerships with CU so we can research and innovate more ecologically friendly aircraft at the site, and utilize more of our airport as a way to increase our fire mitigation and emergency response capacity. If we are to keep the airport, I would like to see it operate in a way that exemplifies Boulder's values.
4. Is there anything else you would like the ANC and the public to know about your policy positions regarding the airport and the future of the site?
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