Subscribe to one of our news e-mail lists. At the same time, there are plans to bring major airlines to a runway a few miles away, touching off a fierce debate. Florida's Homestead Air Reserve Base has been part military airport and part ghost town since Hurricane Andrew blew through in the early 1990s.
Fighter jets take off on training runs while abandoned barracks waste away.
But the relatively quiet air base has become the subject of a noisy debate over whether it should become a busy commercial airport. The city supports the plan of turning the underused military airport into a commercial one. The air base is less than two miles from Biscayne National Park and about eight miles from Everglades National Park. There is the runoff issue. There is the water quality issue.