From the recent issue of the SW Journal, a quote from Governor Ventura
about airport noise & housing:
"I think that's probably one of the selling points for why you can buy low
down there -- or lower than you normally could in other places. You could
get a better piece of property for a lesser price because you do have to
put up with the airport noise."
I seem to recall that a few years back some south Minneapolis homeowners
lost a court case where they were trying to get compensation for the
decreased property value of their homes because of airport noise. They
lost because the Judge decided that they had not shown that airport noise
decreased property values.
I thought at the time that the judge's decision seemed to fly in the face
of reality; and now we have the state's governor publicly disagreeing with
this. And not even arguing it, just stating it as something that everyone
knows.
Doesn't it seem strange that the judicial and executive branches of
government can hold opposite positions on this? And that both of their
views leave the homeowner with the short end of the stick!
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