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Tapping the Airport’s Potential “The proposal for long-range planning is to put in a 5,000- foot runway and add a control tower,” Belanger said. “The county has the real estate here to do this…particularly with the closing of the animal shelter and their plan to acquire more property…and the FAA would fund 90 percent of it, including the EIR, planning, and work.” We’ve got operators here that represent local interests, including a major ag operator with properties here and elsewhere in the western U.S.,” Brogley said. “They are AERIAL OF SAN MARTIN AIRPORT supporting this airport with their activity. A longer runway, and possib