http://www.cbc.ca/canada/north/story/20 ... plane.html
Wonder if this would affect the Tindi/Sunwest or if this is only for private operatorsFloat-plane pilots in Yellowknife may get a new place to land and park their planes, if a proposal for a marina on Kam Lake gets the green light.
A motion to establish the Kam Lake float-plane base passed second reading before city council earlier this week. Public hearings on the proposal will be scheduled after a new council is elected next month.
"This city was built on aviation. [If] it hadn't been for the float plane, it probably wouldn't have been here," Hal Logsdon, president of the Northwest Territories Float Plane Association, told CBC News on Tuesday.
For years, recreational pilots have been coasting onto Back Bay, near the city's Old Town neighbourhood. But pilots have said room is running tight for private planes there.
"It doesn't matter where it is, as long as there's something available where a private person can actually land and pull up to and stay, either on a short-term or even a long-term basis," said Dave Crerar, who has been flying float planes in Yellowknife since 1978.
The proposal does have some opposition: at least two people spoke against the marina's location at Monday night's council meeting.
One of the opponents, dog musher Carol Beck, said the planes would bother her sled dogs and interfere with their use of the lake.
"We use the lake a lot: we canoe on it, we use it for other purposes, we run those dogs for, like, nine months out of the year," Beck told council Monday.
"So I'm not convinced that, you know, we're not going to have a conflict with the float planes. I'm really not convinced about it."
Long process ahead
Logsdon said pilots worked with the city to find the Kam Lake location. He said there'll be a long process ahead before the marina becomes a reality.
"Well, I'm optimistic, but there are a few more hurdles that have to be jumped over before we finally start putting anything in the water," Logsdon said.
"Because it needs to be rezoned … the city has to hold public hearings into the rezoning. And then, of course, we have to be successful in negotiating some kind of an arrangement or lease with the city that is suitable for both parties."
...F*&cking retard. 
