I am going to jump in here one more time. My last post was #27 in this thread.
With the exception of the geezer comments there is absolutely nothing new in this whole thread. The exact same things about noise, rapid loss of flying sites, having to travel further to fly and flying alternative types of airplanes or dropping out of flying all together have been covered in the editorial and old AMA columns since the 1940s. I know this because I have the magazines and review them periodically for historical perspective.
I have no solution but will offer the following observations.

1. Modelers as a group are cheapskates. They will brag about what they own but whine about the cost of maintaining a flying site.

2. Modelers as a group put less effort into holding on to the sites that they have compared to any activity that involves sports and children.

3. Modelers as a group have never been able to act in political concert at any level while other groups have.

4. Modelers are not perceived by political officials as worthwhile group to cultivate for votes because they are too scattered compared to other sports activities.

5. Model airplanes unlike children are not the future of the community they are just a curiosity indulged in by a few.

So what does this all mean? Nothing, other than as a group we will continue to stumble along in a semi nomadic fashion looking back longingly at the fields we once had while wringing our hands about our uncertain future, just as we have for the past 60 plus years.