MIDDLETON–Prompted by continuing aircraft noise and overflight complaints, the Airport Commission last week recommended that the Middleton Common Council explore a land use ordinance for the Middleton Municipal Airport-Morey Field.
“We need to stop people moving next to the airport, if we can,” Commission Chair John Hallick said to open the discussion.
Whether the city does it in conjunction with the neighboring towns of Middleton and Springfield, “That’s up to the city…but this is something that the city can do,” Hallick said.
In the past several years, at least 40 homes have been built west of the airport under the flight pattern used on takeoff from the main runway, said Rich Morey, airport manager.
Development is expected to continue in the Town of Middleton between the end of the runway and the high-voltage transmission line to the west.