It’s time to have our local representatives, and the city of Santa Monica, stand up to the FAA before we have a jet plane crash along the school and the residences that are in their landing pattern. The growth in jet traffic has been without regulation, without environmental considerations, without adequate safety plan-ning, without concern for the neighbors, the negative impact on property values, the health impacts, noise, quality of life, and without concern for Los Angeles. While the city of Santa Monica demands developers deliver environmentally responsive sustainable designs, with local citizen input, with full EIR’s, with full public hearings, with full mitigation, how can the city of Santa Monica be so hypocritical with respect to the airport.
Originally published in the Santa Monica Daily Press print edition on April 10, 2008. Read the original PDF.