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Family pleads with Salt Lake City Council to buy its property and end a 12-year condemnation battle near the Tooele airport

Salt Lake City has battled the family of the late Dick Kunz Sr. for 12 years because of low-flying planes taking off and landing over their homes near the Tooele Valley Airport — which the capital city owns.

The Kunz family just wants it to end, and pleaded Friday for the city council to buy all of its homes and land near the airport, saying aircraft operations have ruined their homes and land for habitation.

“It’s just not acceptable,” Neil Kunz said. “It’s devalued my property. There is no one I can sell my property to other than the airport.