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AOPA financed deceptive ballot initiative petition filed!
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
Continue reading »Thank you City Council!
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
Continue reading »Please attend City Council meeting – Tuesday March 25th
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…
Continue reading »Airport2Park at Mar Vista Farmers Market
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…
Continue reading »Pollsters promote airport handcuffs for Santa Monica
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
Continue reading »Park advocates undaunted by judge’s ruling
“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
Continue reading »$6 million available anually to maintain Airport Great Park
Santa Monica, CA –Millions of dollars in rental income could be available to pay the operating costs of the Santa Monica Airport Great Park once federal restrictions on airport rents are lifted, Airport Commission Chairman David Goddard told a public meeting at the Santa Monica Main Library on Thursday, January 30th. The panel discussion, open
Continue reading »Experts to brainstorm finance for airport great park
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
Continue reading »Airport2Park Reports to Rec & Parks Commission
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
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