City Of Santa Monica Approves Runway Shortening

On Tuesday, August 15, 2017 at 4:33:20 AM UTC-5, Larry Dighera wrote:
https://www.avweb.com/avwebflash/new...-229497-1.html
City Of Santa Monica Approves Runway Shortening
By Geoff Rapoport August 11, 2017

The City of Santa Monica has approved a contract for shortening of the
runway at SMO from 4,973 feet to 3,500 feet. After years of attempts
to close the airport entirely, the City of Santa Monica entered into
an agreement in January with the FAA that would permit the city to
shorten the runway immediately and to close the airport in 2028. The
excess runway will be converted to blastpad and runway overrun spaces.
While sufficient for piston, turboprop and even light jet traffic,
3,500 feet won’t be enough runway for owners of the largest business
jets, who will have to move their planes elsewhere. The city estimates
shortening the runway will reduce jet traffic by 44 percent.

The exact design is scheduled for completion later this month with
construction work ongoing from October to December of this year. The
airport will be closed overnight for significant portions of this time
and the city says operators can expect the airport to be closed for
seven to 14 days during this period.

Someone tell Harrison Ford about the "overrun space". As for the Jets, LAX just bought out a bunch of houses near them, so fewer people will be bothered by the noise.