There *is* a hotel in the works currently. LTD just added a bus line. The airport is expanding and building a new luggage terminal. EUG has been soliciting more frequent and larger flights. We have more taxi services and hotel shuttles and buses than ever before. 

These things all cost money to create the infrastructure for, if the city dumps too much on the airport at once and it doesn't create a satisfactory net return for Joe Shmoe the average disgruntled tax payer, the city is to blame. If they don't "man up" as you say, they're to blame as well.  

Frankly, *none* of this happens with bad airport management, EUG has been chugging along at an increasing clip for years now, this isn't just one good year or one good summer of events. You give them very little credit that is due.

Be glad that we have the second busiest airport in EUG, a really nice spoke airport with 1 million annual enplanements, as well as a really nice Hub airport two hours away in PDX which pushes around 8mil.