How about putting a hotel resort and beach on one corner of the Billy Bishop Airport? It can act as a sound buffer between the airport and the rest of the island.
Not crazy about that.
1) I really do hope for the removal of the airport over the medium term. That may not happen, but I wouldn't want to support a project I couldn't justify if the airport weren't there.
2) There's already a public beach right beside the airport, Hanlan's Point. The inner-habour side is either between the islands and non-viable as a beach or within the restricted waters of the airport.
3) Any building to be economically viable would have to have a certain size, and would displace a material amount of existing parkland. This is particularly true when you consider that height is likely constrained next to the airport.
4) I do not support creating 'exclusive', non-public uses where you require reservations or significant dollars to have access to any area. I don't mind a modest fee for something like camping.
But a resort is something else all together.
5) I would wonder at whether a resort would be interested in being sandwiched between the airport and a nude beach!
6) Should the airport ever decamp, their site represents roughly 80ha or 200 acres. I would not necessarily object to a hotel or very small scale resort on a small portion of the site, on the basis that most of the area would be net gain
to the public and the former could help finance the latter.