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# Santa Monica Airport doesn’t help most locals
- URL: https://www.smdp.com/santa-monica-airport-doesnt-help-most-locals-editor/
- Published: 2007-05-03T15:00:00.000Z
- Updated: 2026-10-24T00:40:43.000Z
- Author: Guest Author
- Tags: Opinion, Santa Monica Airport, #archive-import

*By Kali D. Davis*

I think we need to ask the Santa Monica City Council what their individual positions are concerning the airport noise, safety and pollution problems — and why they are not listening to the majority of residents living near the airport who want restrictions!

The City Council doesn’t seem to give a “hoot” about the residents affected by the airport. They seem to want to tell us where we can smoke, but who cares if jet emissions are killing us?

In fact, they have ruled against the safety, pollution and noise problems time after time — siding with the dysfunc-tional FAA. They seem to support the “jetsetters” and big businesses, not the people.

If the FAA and city won’t listen to the homeowners directly affected by the airport violations, then maybe the solution is to close the whole thing.

The average Joe and Jane living here gets nothing from the airport but cancer-filled lungs and noise that hinders one’s conversations! Oh, and the runways which are unsafe for the big jets that have tripled in five years.

I ask everyone living on the Westside to write letters to the FAA and city of Santa Monica to let them know we don’t need any more pollution.

Doesn’t Santa Monica pride themselves on being a “green” city? Hogwash!

*Originally published in the Santa Monica Daily Press print edition on May 3, 2007.* [Read the original PDF.](https://s3.us-east-1.amazonaws.com/smdp%5Fbackissues/050307.pdf?ref=smdp.com)