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Santa Monica Airport Begins Evictions - FAA Warnings Ignored
Two weeks after the FAA reiterated its longstanding and unambiguous view that Santa Monica Municipal Airport must continue operating on “fair and reasonable terms” until 2023 at least, the city issued eviction notices targeting both of the airport’s fixed base operators, Atlantic Aviation and American Flyers. (www.aopa.org) 기타...Sort type: [Top] [Newest]
I live in Santa Monica and plan to get my license at SMO. All this battling is making me very upset and how the counsel is ignoring FAA. Doesn't the FAA after all make the final decision?
I have been taking lessons there with the Santa Monica Flyers. I don't think there is that big of a problem with noise based on my observations.
Greed by the City is overwhelming.
Greed by the City is overwhelming.
Yank their federal funding and they will set up and pay attention.
They did it in Chicago and they will probably do so in Santa Monica. They hold the keys to the City. Government can be the biggest slum lord when they want to be and they can withhold essential services at their will forcing business to either move or fail. As the saying goes you can't fight city hall. What the city fathers see is a parcel of land for which they are not receiving proper valuable tax dollars.
What, exactly, does the city intend to do with the property? Hand it to a developer?
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