{"id":10307,"date":"2024-07-29T19:09:50","date_gmt":"2024-07-29T19:09:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thecannabist.co\/2024\/07\/29\/boulder-sues-faa-seeking-clarity-over-when-the-city-could-close-municipal-airport\/136348\/"},"modified":"2024-07-29T19:09:50","modified_gmt":"2024-07-29T19:09:50","slug":"boulder-sues-faa-seeking-clarity-over-when-the-city-could-close-municipal-airport","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/boulder-sues-faa-seeking-clarity-over-when-the-city-could-close-municipal-airport\/","title":{"rendered":"Boulder sues FAA seeking clarity over when the city could close municipal airport"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"wp_fb_like_button\" style=\"margin:5px 0 5px 5px;float:right;height:100px;\"><script src=\"http:\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_US\/all.js#xfbml=1\"><\/script><fb:like href=\"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/boulder-sues-faa-seeking-clarity-over-when-the-city-could-close-municipal-airport\/\" send=\"true\" layout=\"standard\" width=\"450\" show_faces=\"false\" font=\"arial\" action=\"like\" colorscheme=\"light\"><\/fb:like><\/div><div class=\"media_block\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thecannabist.co\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/DCC-L-AIRPORT_2MJ7389-560x373.jpg\"><img src=\"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/boulder-sues-faa-seeking-clarity-over-when-the-city-could-close-municipal-airport.jpg\" class=\"media_thumbnail\"><\/a><\/div>\n<div><img src=\"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/boulder-sues-faa-seeking-clarity-over-when-the-city-could-close-municipal-airport-2.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" \/><\/div>\n<div class=\"row\">\n<div class=\"large-10 large-centered small-12 columns\">\n<div class=\"yarpp yarpp-related yarpp-related-website yarpp-template-yarpp-template-inarticle-right\">\n<aside class=\"article-related right\">\n<h3>Related Articles<\/h3>\n<\/aside>\n<\/div>\n<p>Boulder filed a federal lawsuit against the Federal Aviation Administration over issues surrounding the city\u2019s plans to possibly close Boulder Municipal Airport.<\/p>\n<p>In a court filing Friday, attorneys for Boulder wrote that the city is considering redeveloping the airport amid a shortage of affordable housing and growing concerns around noise and environmental impacts from the airport.<\/p>\n<p>They noted that, while the city has previously accepted FAA grant funding for airport maintenance, each grant agreement Boulder accepts obligates the city to keep the airport open for a maximum of 20 more years. So, the city has stopped accepting grants so it can lawfully close the airport after 2040, when the current contract expires.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.denverpost.com\/2024\/07\/29\/boulder-sues-faa-airport-closure\/\">Read the rest of this story on TheKnow.DenverPost.com.<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Related Articles Boulder filed a federal lawsuit against the Federal Aviation Administration over issues surrounding the city\u2019s plans to possibly close Boulder Municipal Airport. In a court filing Friday, attorneys for Boulder wrote that the city is considering redeveloping the airport amid a shortage of affordable housing and growing concerns around noise and environmental impacts [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2435,9,1,3,7508,61,1736],"tags":[2436,7510],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10307"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10307"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10307\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10307"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10307"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10307"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}