Photo by Cliff BuchanThe newly -paved Daniel DePonti Airport runway as seen from the air.
The Daniel DePonti Airport runway is paved, but some members of the Forest Lake Airport Commission, as well other lessees of hangar space, are at odds over a new lease that’s been under discussion for months – including a provision for paying for the commission’s share of the runway cost.
The previous version of the airport hangar lease was approved in 2008, and a new version was written this year. According to City Administrator Aaron Parrish, the city felt that the 2008 lease needed to have some language modified to keep it current and to address a few flaws in its makeup, like a provision that made it difficult to raise rents in accordance with market factors. One sticking point that some commission members had with the new lease was a section that dictated that the hangars
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