![]() ![]() The vote also came as commercial air service out of Tweed has increased dramatically since November 2021, after the new budget airline Avelo made New Haven its “East Coast” hub and is currently running nonstop flights to 14 different communities, including Orlando, Tampa Bay, Nashville, Savannah, Charleston, Chicago, Washington, D.C., and Raleigh. ![]() One of many lawn signs on a Morris Cove home protesting Tweed expansion.Īcross two separate City Plan Commission meetings, airport representatives argued that using the existing lot - which otherwise remains used for storage of larger equipment like forklifts and aircraft parts - for parking would mean a net benefit to the area, such as the new implementation of erosion control measures to improve water quality in the area.Ī host of residents and environmental advocates, on the other hand, Zoomed in to the online meetings - including Wednesday’s - to express concerns about the pavement’s proximity to vulnerable wetlands, citing Tweed’s history of violating zoning regulations as reason to reject measures that would allow for their expansion and potential abuse of the natural environment.Īll of this comes as Tweed continues to eye a much larger expansion plan that would see the airport construct a new four- to six-gate terminal on the East Haven side of the property and lengthen the airport’s runway from 5,600 feet to 6,635 to try to attract new passenger air service. East Haven town government, environmentalists and some area elected officials and Morris Cove and East Haven neighbors have pushed back on those expansion plans as exacerbating air, water and noise pollution as well as heavy car traffic. ![]()
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