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# Letters: Airport choices, development disasters
- URL: https://www.smdp.com/letters-airport-choices-development-disasters/
- Published: 2015-06-20T13:25:03.000Z
- Updated: 2024-12-03T21:39:52.000Z
- Author: Editor
- Tags: Letters, SMO, Opinion, Airport, alan levenson, aviation, jeffrey sklar, ken karmiole, letters to the editor, Ocean Park, Santa Monica, Santa Monica Airport, Sunset Park, #wp, #wp-post, #Import 2025-11-06 14:44

Editor:

Mr. Levenson, you make some very good points about the problems [living close to the airport](http://www.smdp.com/screaming-jets-squeaky-wheels/148702). Nevertheless, your letterleft me wondering if someone twisted your arm, forcing you to buy a home close to the airport. You made that choice, didn't you? You knew, I'm sure, that airports are noisy and jet fuel is a pollutant in the air. You sound like an intelligent man, yet you chose to live next to the airport. Have you thought about moving? It may be something to consider.

Ken Karmiole  
*Santa Monica*

**Has Santa Monica sold its soul?**

Editor:

Stop Santa Monica's City Councilfrom selling its soul. We are handing our city over to over-paid, putative planners whose main goal is to leave an imprint. Keep low-rise restrictions in place. Stop profiteering in the lying name of a better quality of life. It's Balderdash. Pam O'Connor and Terry O'Day are O' in the pockets of developers.

Jeffrey Sklar  
*Santa Monica*