GREAT news!  Last night the Santa Monica City Council voted unanimously to close Santa Monica Airport as soon as legally possible and to begin planning for a park! This is truly an historic event. It puts Santa Monica on the path to replace the airport that is currently used by a handful of people with

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In 1999, I was appointed to the Santa Monica Recreation and Parks Commission and served for about 12 1/2 years, when I was termed out in 2011.  When I first joined the Commission, the common theme from the Commission and the public was that Santa Monica lacks park space and playing fields and this continued

Airport2Park will join with Los Angeles Walks who will be sponsoring a walk around the perimeter of the Santa Monica Airport this Saturday, August 6th, 2016, at 10am beginning in Clover Park.   This will be a moderate 3.5 mile walk around the perimeter of the Santa Monica Airport where we can learn about issues and impacts relating to

For more details and to weigh in visit the City’s page for the Airport Park Expansion at SantaMonicaParks.org

On Saturday, June 18, 11am-2pm, the City of Santa Monica will hold the first public planning workshop for the upcoming expansion of Airport Park. Mark Rios, the landscape architect chosen by the City to design the conversion of the first 12 acres of the airport into a park, will present his initial ideas and ask

“A major step towards confirming that Santa Monica is entitled to close the airport and turn it into a park.” That was how Neil Carrey, President of the Santa Monica Airport2Park Foundation, responded to the decision of the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals to reverse a dismissal on procedural grounds of the City of Santa

Gavin Scott, of Santa Monica’s park advocacy group Airport2Park, talks to Mark Rios, the designer selected by the City to convert the first 12 acres of Santa Monica Airport land released from aviation use into an enlarged Airport Park, which will at that point become Santa Monica’s second largest park.  Mr Rios will be speaking about his

Airport2Park Presents: “Lets Start the “Park Talk”. Meet Mark Rios, the newly-hired Designer of the Park Expansion on our Airport Land. Friday May 13.

“10 Parks that Changed America” Screens Tuesday on PBS  Be sure to tune in this Tuesday April 12th at 8pm when PBS screens “10 Parks that Changed America” a show tells the story of 10 visionaries who took open canvases of God-forsaken land, and transformed them into serene spaces that offer city dwellers a respite