UNC-CH will stick with its airport plan
Published: Fri, May. 30, 2008 12:30AM
Modified Fri, May. 30, 2008 02:43AM
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closeCHAPEL HILL -- UNC-Chapel Hill is proceeding with plans to close Horace Williams Airport despite a bill introduced last week to keep it open.
"Obviously the submission of this bill is of interest to us," Jack Evans, executive director of the planned research campus, said Thursday. "But for right now the course we're on is the implementation of the chancellor's plan that has been endorsed by the Board of Governors."
UNC-CH plans to close the airport in time to open Innovation Center, the first building in Carolina North. It plans to move its medical fleet to Raleigh-Durham International Airport until a new airport is built closer to campus.
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On Tuesday, state Sen. Tom Apodaca, a Hendersonville Republican, introduced a bill that would keep Horace Williams Airport open until a new airport is built and operating within 10 miles of the current airport off Estes Drive Extension in Chapel Hill.
Apodaca said the airport is important for patient safety. He called the university's plans a "land grab for Carolina to expand an office park."
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