As predicted by CASMAT more than a month ago, the national aviation lobby organization AOPA, has pushed ahead with filing their deceptive attempt to handcuff the City and prevent it from gaining control of its own property.  The initiative was filed just two days after the Council unanimously approved a staff report recommending elimination or

At last night’s City Council meeting the Council unanimously approved staff’s recommendations while modifying them to clarify Council’s intent, and while explicitly making clear that any land released from aviation uses would be used for low intensity uses such as a park.  Recommendations included the following: Consider and comment on the information provided in this

We need your help! If you want the airport to turn into a great park! Come to the Council Meeting on Tuesday March 25th from 6:30 PM onwards. Details in post…

Airport2Park has been invited to be the guest host for this Sunday’s (March 9) MVCC Green Tent at the Mar Vista Farmers Market from 8am-2pm…

At the same time that the City of Santa Monica is exploring all options to confirm its rights over the land it owns at Santa Monica Airport, so that it can close the airport in 2015 when its 1984 Settlement Agreement with the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) expires, unnamed pro-airport groups are using the controversial

“This isn’t going to stop Santa Monica getting its park,” A2P spokesman Frank Gruber said in response to the ruling. “The decision was on narrow procedural grounds, and doesn’t alter the fact that the people of Santa Monica bought this land through a park bond a century ago. We are quietly confident that when the dust

Santa Monica, CA – Four leading thinkers in public finance and park development are gathering in Santa Monica to help figure out how the city can cover the costs of replacing the airport with a park. The public meeting and panel discussion, to be hosted by former Santa Monica mayor Michael Feinstein and sponsored by

Last Thursday evening, Jan. 16, at the monthly meeting of the Santa Monica Recreation and Parks Commission, Airport2Park presented the commission with a report on what we have been doing — and why. A2P had requested the chance to advise the commission, which will have a lead role in the public process that the City

Airport2Park is bringing together experts on public finance and economics for a public panel discussion to explore how the park can be paid for.