A five mile ban from the perimeter of ALL airports throughout Florida initially and then a two mile ban was about to be written into law. That is two miles from the entire airport perimeter impacting numerous kiting areas statewide, not the far less impacting one mile by half mile area along the axis of runways that was negotiated at the last minute. This was the alternative arrived at in the three hours allowed to us to avoid that from happening. That was the only warning we had and the only choices at the time. I didn't start the legislation but merely tried to fight it in a very short period of time with input from as many effective kiting leaders as I could contact.
Many people objected after and in many ways at various levels in government. Despite that it was still written into law. Early on I had concerns about existing FAR prohibitions being applied statewide, regardless of what Florida government did if enough stink was raised. From what I have seen in the state process, it could be possible still. The state law may be modified in the next legislative session, we can certainly hope so, but it will take concerted effort.
Would you rather try to modify the current limited language apparently impacting very few actively used riding areas or a blanket law forbidding kiting within two to five miles of all airports? We stopped the later outcome at the last minute allowed.
We formed an email group of effective kiting leaders throughout the state, including yourself, to try to preempt something like this falling on a few people in the future even if only hours are available. You have yet to respond to any of the email questions on there. There are other threats to access out there than this throughout the state that are still in play. When winds come back to Florida, a number of these threats will likely heat up again.