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Article: Court says no to airport at old US Air Force base in Miami.
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- May 11, 2001
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Miami-Dade County and developers have been denied their request to build a new airport on the site of a former US Air Force base.
The site of the Air Force base is close to two national parks and the county's petition to build there was opposed by the Natural Resources Defense Council, the Sierra Club and the Tropical Audubon Society. The three groups intervened to stop the airport proposal after the Air Force also decided that ...