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Summit park board tells airplane club to take off

Chairwoman says model aircraft at Summit County Fairgrounds pose safety threat

By Rick Armon
Beacon Journal staff writer

A model airplane club that flies at the Summit County Fairgrounds needs to find a new home, the chairwoman of the Metro Parks, Serving Summit County, board said Monday.

Carol Curtis, speaking before the County Council, called the Corsair Model Aircraft Club ''a good group of people'' but said the planes are incompatible with the park district and will pose a risk for visitors.

 

Council members listened to a presentation by the club and comments by Curtis and parks Director Keith Shy as they tried to intervene in the controversy over whether the club will have to relocate after 38 years at the fairgrounds.

 

Several council members said they hope a compromise can be reached.

The county recently donated to the park district about 290 undeveloped acres just north of the fairgrounds in Tallmadge. The property has been added to Munroe Falls Metro Park and the district has plans to build a hiking and jogging trail there next year.

The district doesn't want the planes flying over the new parkland.

''The best thing for all of us is to find another site,'' Curtis said.

Remote-controlled planes, boats and cars are not permitted on park property — or overhead.

The club says it won't be able to stay at the fairgrounds if it can't fly over the nearby parkland. The park property forms a C-shape around the club's runway.

County Councilman John
Schmidt has proposed a resolution urging the three-member park board to allow the club to stay. The board operates independently of county government.

The resolution is expected to be voted on next Monday.

The park district already has compromised by allowing the club to keep operating until the trail is built, and has given the club plenty of time to find a new location, Shy said.

But club members don't want to move and say the fairgrounds are the perfect site for them because of the flat, undeveloped land around there.

''If we weren't there, we'd be asking to be there,'' club Trustee John Ashley said.

The club also will make a pitch before the park board, he said. He said that the club is scouting out other locations just in case it has to move.

 


Rick Armon can be reached at 330-996-3569 or rarmon@thebeaconjournal.com.

 

A model airplane club that flies at the Summit County Fairgrounds needs to find a new home, the chairwoman of the Metro Parks, Serving Summit County, board said Monday.

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