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Dania Beach, Fla. Property Owners Get Few Answers on Airport Expansion Plans.

By Michael Turnbell, South Florida Sun-Sentinel Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News

Jan. 22--DANIA BEACH, Fla. -- More than 200 residents packed a conference room at the Wyndham Hotel on Wednesday night to hear how soon they might lose their homes to the expansion of Fort Lauderdale-Hollywood International Airport.

But most of them walked away frustrated that they didn't get any answers and said they didn't have confidence the county would treat them fairly in the process.

Even if homeowners are relocated to similar homes elsewhere in the c

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