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FAA orders a halt to evictions of aviation companies at embattled Santa Monica airport
"The Federal Aviation Administration on Tuesday ordered Santa Monica to halt the evictions of two aviation companies at its municipal airport until the agency can finish an investigation into the city’s effort to shut down the facility" (www.latimes.com) Plus d'info...Sort type: [Top] [Newest]
good for the FAA
So the City officials want to de-privatize a perfectly good working system in the hopes of shutting down the airport. And why? Because a few over the top boisterous NIMBY's have it in their tiny minds that suddenly Santa Monica Airport is creating a grave danger ( is there any other kind?) to the public.
Or...is this a ploy on the part of the city leaders to close the airport then parcel up the land and sell it off to developers. Imagining many cities in CA are buried in debt due to poor fiscal planning AND pension obligations to retired public employees, it is very possible the City needs the cash generated by any sale
Or...is this a ploy on the part of the city leaders to close the airport then parcel up the land and sell it off to developers. Imagining many cities in CA are buried in debt due to poor fiscal planning AND pension obligations to retired public employees, it is very possible the City needs the cash generated by any sale
One question. How many of these NIMBYS who are worried about this airport lived there BEFORE IT WAS OPENED IN THE 1940? IMHO, those are the only ones who have a legitimate complaint. And I'll bet the number is 0!
We have a similar issue here in Kentucky. Bowman Field was opened in 1921. A AIRPORT THAT WAS OPENED IN 1921 HAS NEARBY RESIDENTS CLAIMING IT'S EXISTENCE HURTS THEIR PROPERTY VALUES!!!???
So far the local NIMBYS have tried to limit Bowman's airport operating hours, limit types and sizes of aircraft who can use the airport, eliminate IFR operations, and most recently keep the FAA from trimming the trees to continue to have safe approach paths!! IMHO the only NIMBYS with a legitimate complaint concerning the operation of Bowman Field are those who lived nearby before 1921.
We have a similar issue here in Kentucky. Bowman Field was opened in 1921. A AIRPORT THAT WAS OPENED IN 1921 HAS NEARBY RESIDENTS CLAIMING IT'S EXISTENCE HURTS THEIR PROPERTY VALUES!!!???
So far the local NIMBYS have tried to limit Bowman's airport operating hours, limit types and sizes of aircraft who can use the airport, eliminate IFR operations, and most recently keep the FAA from trimming the trees to continue to have safe approach paths!! IMHO the only NIMBYS with a legitimate complaint concerning the operation of Bowman Field are those who lived nearby before 1921.
I think every airport has newly arrived disgruntled neighbors. My local example is the former Mather AFB, KMHR under whose approach I live. It's 10 miles and in the next county. NIMBYs in my county are objecting to increases in freight traffic due to the noise. They weren't here when it was a SAC base and don't have the BUFFs and tankers with which to compare. There has been a rendering plant a couple miles SE of the field, having moved there in 1970's to be far from town. Developers built tracts under the flight path and ever closer to the rendering plant. Guess what?
Maybe they should let the people get what they want. Then all the airlines and air service can move out and then they can have the peace and quiet that they want. Then when they want to fly they can have the peace of handling the drive through traffic to LAX for any flights .....
California has become in these last eight years a Banana Republic.