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toax 15 Pact 763 easement. Now when I say proposed that is based on what the appraisals are conducted upon and what the initial offers and negotiations will be based upon. Some of those fee simple offers in that 650 acres are a partial taking of a total tract. It has been my experience that sometimes in those partial takings there will be a negotiated acreage of slightly more or less of what's available because of the property owners feel as to what that partial taking does to the remainder of his/her property. COMMISSIONER WICKER - Why are you looking at such a large amount of land for this project? FRED HOBBS - This airport is designated as a reliever airport for Raleigh-Durham as opposed to a simple, general aviation airport which is what your current Lee County facility is. We have found in the past too on all categories of airports, from general aviation to air carriers, that where the land is available and can be bought initially to protect the approaches and to provide for expansion, it is an investment well made as the land subsequently tends to increase in value as development takes place. COMMISSIONER WICKER - That much land, it looks like you're thinking about my childrens childrens childrens children down the road for the airport or something. That's a lot of important land you're talking about. FRED HOBBS - Person County Airport and Johnston County Airport, both of which are within my professional life time, within the last twenty years, have been built and expanded. Person County has been done within the last ten years. COMMISSIONER WICKER - What acreage are you looking at? FRED HOBBS - I don't know what acreage they have, the point being they have extended runways, expanded capabilities to accommodate the increase in traffic and to accommodate, to a certain extent, changes in aviation requirements. Part of that change has been equipment but a lot of that change is insurance requirements that are requiring longer runways, wider runways to operate corporate jets and very expensive turbo prop aircraft. COMMISSIONER WICKER - Evidently I missed quite a few points in this airport program is the reason I'm asking these questions. FRED HOBBS - There is more acreage proposed here than in a typical general aviation airport, there's no question. Again, two reasons for that - availability of the land in its current state. In its current use it is the belief of the Division of Aviation that it is the appropriate time to acquire land to provide for the future growth and expansion of the facility, at a cost that we believe is 11 004 4