{"id":5214,"date":"2020-07-28T19:03:54","date_gmt":"2020-07-28T23:03:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.libertystudentnews.com\/?p=5214"},"modified":"2020-07-28T19:03:54","modified_gmt":"2020-07-28T23:03:54","slug":"liberty-universitys-new-london-airport-expansion-plans-withdrawn-preliminary-discussions-begin-again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.libertystudentnews.com\/?p=5214","title":{"rendered":"Liberty University&rsquo;s New London Airport expansion plans withdrawn, preliminary discussions begin again"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Town of Bedford held a public preliminary review Tuesday at the County Administration Building to discuss Liberty University&rsquo;s New London Airport expansion. Liberty University proposed relocating the headquarters of the Flight Training Affiliate program to the New London Airport. When it purchased the airport for $1.8 million in late 2015, LU submitted rezoning and special-use applications for the expansion plans back in 2019.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;So, where we&rsquo;re at right now is that Liberty had submitted a rezoning and special use in early of 2019, both of those applications are no longer valid, they are withdrawn basically, and right now we&rsquo;re in the evaluation process of figuring out the 50% expansion of what they could do by right.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>Several residents of Bedford County who live near the New London Airport have valid concerns.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/0BrDQi_t1TE\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p> \u2013 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wfxrtv.com\/digital-originals\/liberty-universitys-new-london-airport-expansion-plans-withdrawn-preliminary-discussions-begin-again\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">READ MORE &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Town of Bedford held a public preliminary review Tuesday at the County Administration Building to discuss Liberty University&rsquo;s New&#8230;<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.libertystudentnews.com\/?p=5214\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Liberty University&rsquo;s New London Airport expansion plans withdrawn, preliminary discussions begin again<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[101],"class_list":["post-5214","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","tag-liberty-universitys-new-london-airport-expansion-plans-withdrawn-preliminary-discussions-begin-again","entry"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pJcR0-1m6","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.libertystudentnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5214","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.libertystudentnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.libertystudentnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.libertystudentnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.libertystudentnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5214"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.libertystudentnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5214\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5215,"href":"https:\/\/www.libertystudentnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5214\/revisions\/5215"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.libertystudentnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5214"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.libertystudentnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5214"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.libertystudentnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5214"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}