I have the other side of this. A WWII era army base near a former home is now an airport for student pilots, general aviation, charter jets & celebrities. Great, not every airport is for ticketed commercial service. For the first 40 years, the neighborhood was not great, so nobody complained. But for 20 years now, the area is in high demand. Land sells for $750k/acre and it's rising. So people would like to add on and renovate their homes, fix the local school and in general want to make it a nicer place to live. But the airport wants a one mile zone of control around the airport. If a student pilot wants to spend hours practicing touch and goes, then anybody within a mile of the airport has to just deal with it. You get used to the noise inside your house, but good luck sitting outside on your deck when Pipers and Cessnas are doing low altitude maneuvers. Is the airport going to buy up the houses? No, but it wants full air access over crowded residential neighborhoods.

I eventually sold because I wanted a newer home, but the airport is still a drag on the area. We're talking about tens of millions of dollars out of homeowners pockets just because a few recreational pilots want an urban airport. There's plenty of land in the suburbs for an airport, but the pilots want a 5 mile drive to the city.