Yep, been through the losing the field a couple of times and fighting city hall seem useless - heck, a lot of them even to do what the people don't want them to any way and get away with it.

We're very lucky with the 3 fields we fly at here. One is owned by the County Parks Department and they put in an asphalt runway. Another is owned by a major general aviation manufacture employee association and has and asphalt runway that our club is able to access. The third is where I fly most of the time at an old landfill. I'm going to a meeting this even about the development of landfill as a city park - there are people high up in the parks department who not only like our club there, but want to develop the field into a multi-use park with over 1/2 of it being devoted strictly to model aircraft flying and want our clubs help in developing a good site.

One thing we do as a club is maintain all these fields, so we have a good expense in the riding lawnmowers and other equipment at the fields but it’s worth it to have good fields and the corporate/city/county backing.

Hogflyer