Join us to help save Santa Monica Airport!

Subject: Reminder | Join us to help save Santa Monica Airport!
From: "AOPA - Aircraft Owners and Pilots Association"
Date: Thu, 21 Aug 2014 10:15:54 -0400 (EDT)

Help Save SMO!
Please join Santa Monicans for Open and Honest Development Decisions.

AOPA President Mark Baker and NBAA President Ed Bolen will be joining us to
talk about the most significant land use decision in Santa Monica History.

Please bring your friends and neighbors to learn more about this voters decide
initiative and how you can support the effort to get this ballot measure passed
on November 4 and help save Santa Monica Airport!.
Date: Monday, August 25, 2014
Time: 7:00pm
Location: Justice Aviation
3011 Airport Ave
Santa Monica, CA 90405
Learn more (http://www.smvotersdecide.com/) about the Voter's Decide
initiative.

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On Sunday, August 24, 2014 7:02:38 AM UTC-5, Larry Dighera wrote:
Subject: Reminder | Join us to help save Santa Monica Airport!

From: "AOPA - Aircraft Owners and Pilots Association"

Date: Thu, 21 Aug 2014 10:15:54 -0400 (EDT)



Help Save SMO!

Please join Santa Monicans for Open and Honest Development Decisions.



AOPA President Mark Baker and NBAA President Ed Bolen will be joining us to

talk about the most significant land use decision in Santa Monica History.



Please bring your friends and neighbors to learn more about this voters decide

initiative and how you can support the effort to get this ballot measure passed

on November 4 and help save Santa Monica Airport!.

Date: Monday, August 25, 2014

Time: 7:00pm

Location: Justice Aviation

3011 Airport Ave

Santa Monica, CA 90405

Learn more (http://www.smvotersdecide.com/) about the Voter's Decide

initiative.



RSVP not required, but appreciated. Please email:


I'm guessing the crowd was small enough to fit in a Cessna, not a 777, tee hee.
Why should 5 percent of Santa Monica's land to restricted to .00001 percent of the population to use ??

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On Sunday, August 24, 2014 7:02:38 AM UTC-5, Larry Dighera wrote:
Subject: Reminder | Join us to help save Santa Monica Airport!

From: "AOPA - Aircraft Owners and Pilots Association"


Date: Thu, 21 Aug 2014 10:15:54 -0400 (EDT)



Help Save SMO!

Please join Santa Monicans for Open and Honest Development Decisions.



AOPA President Mark Baker and NBAA President Ed Bolen will be joining us to

talk about the most significant land use decision in Santa Monica History.



Please bring your friends and neighbors to learn more about this voters
decide

initiative and how you can support the effort to get this ballot measure
passed

on November 4 and help save Santa Monica Airport!.

Date: Monday, August 25, 2014

Time: 7:00pm

Location: Justice Aviation

3011 Airport Ave

Santa Monica, CA 90405

Learn more (http://www.smvotersdecide.com/) about the Voter's Decide

initiative.



RSVP not required, but appreciated. Please email:


I'm guessing the crowd was small enough to fit in a Cessna, not a 777, tee
hee.
Why should 5 percent of Santa Monica's land to restricted to .00001 percent
of the population to use ??

Why should it go to developers, who will just take the money and run?

When the Big One hits, you will probably be one of the first ones out
there crying for aid, which will come in via SMO, since all the freeways
will be clogged. SMO is just another part of the transportation system
and is irreplaceable.

On Thursday, September 4, 2014 9:27:32 PM UTC-5, Orval Fairbairn wrote:
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wrote:



On Sunday, August 24, 2014 7:02:38 AM UTC-5, Larry Dighera wrote:

Subject: Reminder | Join us to help save Santa Monica Airport!



From: "AOPA - Aircraft Owners and Pilots Association"





Date: Thu, 21 Aug 2014 10:15:54 -0400 (EDT)







Help Save SMO!



Please join Santa Monicans for Open and Honest Development Decisions.







AOPA President Mark Baker and NBAA President Ed Bolen will be joining us to



talk about the most significant land use decision in Santa Monica History.







Please bring your friends and neighbors to learn more about this voters

decide



initiative and how you can support the effort to get this ballot measure

passed



on November 4 and help save Santa Monica Airport!.



Date: Monday, August 25, 2014



Time: 7:00pm



Location: Justice Aviation



3011 Airport Ave



Santa Monica, CA 90405



Learn more (http://www.smvotersdecide.com/) about the Voter's Decide



initiative.







RSVP not required, but appreciated. Please email:





I'm guessing the crowd was small enough to fit in a Cessna, not a 777, tee

hee.

Why should 5 percent of Santa Monica's land to restricted to .00001 percent

of the population to use ??



Why should it go to developers, who will just take the money and run?

The resulting buildings, residential or commercial, will generate jobs and revenues far greater than what current SMO users provide. Just look at the development further south at Playa Vista and the old Hughes site.

When the Big One hits, you will probably be one of the first ones out

there crying for aid, which will come in via SMO, since all the freeways

The "aid" could just as easily use LAX, whatever "aid" is considered so critical that it must be flown in. Most supplies will come overland from Inland Empire warehouses.

On Thu, 4 Sep 2014 14:29:03 -0700 (PDT), wrote:

Why should 5 percent of Santa Monica's land to restricted to .00001 percent of the population to use ??

Because the land belonged to the federal government, and the city agreed to
hold it in perpetuity as an airport as a condition of receipt of said land? The
airport isn't merely land, it is an integral part of the National Airspace
System. Removal of components of the NAS degrades the entire system.

Why should developers be permitted to violate the agreement by which the city
acquired the airport land?

Why should nearby homeowners receive a boost in home value as a result of an
illegal land grab? The price they paid for their homes was doubtlessly
influenced by the proximity of the airport.

Why did the city permit construction of homes so close to the airport? That
would seem to qualify as an admission of malfeasance in office.

Why are you so anti aviation?

On Friday, September 5, 2014 9:01:47 AM UTC-5, Larry Dighera wrote:
On Thu, 4 Sep 2014 14:29:03 -0700 (PDT), wrote:



Why should 5 percent of Santa Monica's land to restricted to .00001 percent of the population to use ??



Because the land belonged to the federal government, and the city agreed to

hold it in perpetuity as an airport as a condition of receipt of said land?

In Perpetuity ?? Forever and ever ?? Sorry but times change and eventually land moves on to higher and better uses.

The

airport isn't merely land, it is an integral part of the National Airspace

System. Removal of components of the NAS degrades the entire system.



Why should developers be permitted to violate the agreement by which the city

acquired the airport land?

Why did the city permit construction of homes so close to the airport? That

would seem to qualify as an admission of malfeasance in office.

A lot of the houses are in adjoining LA city. What should have been done, should the orange groves been kept ??




Why are you so anti aviation?

Me, "anti-aviation" ?? Just another personal attack from a side with few logical
points to defend their position. In fact I've been watching a heli-pad being built 3 miles from Chicago's downtown by a private developer. But you have to be super-liquid to afford a helo in the city.

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A lot of the houses are in adjoining LA city. What should have been
done, should the orange groves been kept ??
Some of them, yes. LA would be a lot more pleasant if the developers
hadn't had free reign for decades.
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Why should 5 percent of Santa Monica's land to restricted to .00001
percent of the population to use ??

Why should a city have a park? Not everyone will use it. Likewise for
quite a number of city features.

Not everything of worth is measured by the strict economic utility of
it.
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Bug Dout wrote:

writes:

Why should 5 percent of Santa Monica's land to restricted to .00001
percent of the population to use ??

Why should a city have a park? Not everyone will use it. Likewise for
quite a number of city features.

Not everything of worth is measured by the strict economic utility of
it.

Yes -- Just look at all that valuable property going to waste as parks,
when it could be sold to developers who would build new Century Cities
on the land!