By Karla Zompa Santa Monica
My family and I have been enduring the jets coming and going from the Santa Monica airport for many years. The noise, pollution, and threatening nature of these jets flying over our home and neighborhood is awful. When we moved into Ocean Park 22 years ago, only prop planes used the airport.
Equally distressing is the dismissive treatment of thousands of good Santa Monica and Mar Vista families by the FAA and the owners and users of these jets. How many of these people would welcome this activity flying over their homes and children 365 days a year?
City Council, please forbid the use of our airport by ALL JETS. Buffers or longer runways are a joke. We must fight this ongoing assault on the quality of our lives until we Santa Monicans win.
Originally published in the Santa Monica Daily Press print edition on March 21, 2008. Read the original PDF.