Editor:
I wish we would end this foolish talk about replacing the airport with a park and start focusing on important matters such as crime and taxes. Tongva Park and Ken Genser Square are about 7 acres in size with a cost of approximately $42 million. That works out to $6 million an acre.
The airport is 400 acres so that would be $2.5 billion, not to mention the cost of removing all of the airport buildings, etc. Then you have to pay for maintaining a 400-acre park. Not going to happen.
I wonder how many people calling for a park even know that the airport already has playing fields, a dog park and demonstration gardens. I bet all the people in Mar Vista who don't pay for it do.
Linda Fineman
Santa Monica
Originally published in the Santa Monica Daily Press print edition on October 11, 2013. Read the original PDF.