Quote, with the expenditure of $18.5 million on runway maintenance, we will not invest additional funding to maintain the existing runway and taxiway pavement.
Locally, a hot-button debate has set off between the two futures—one where the runway and taxiway stay where they are, and one where they're moved 80 feet further apart.
It closed for two weeks in May 2022, then another two in 2023 for repaving projects on the taxiway and runway that were completed to meet the FAA's grant obligations.
So under those constraints, the separation between the airport's taxiway and runway is just 320 feet or 100 meters—far less than the 400 or 120 normally required for an airport to earn a Design Group 3 classification.