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AIN Blog: Resolution Seeks To Remove Aviation Uses at KSMO
The city council is expected to vote on a resolution that would help it hasten the closure of Santa Monica Airport.
Santa Monica Airport has full-time police protection, so why is the city looking to spend more money on security at its airport? (Photo: Matt Thurber)
Santa Monica Airport has full-time police protection, so why is the city looking to spend more money on security at its airport? (Photo: Matt Thurber)

Tonight Santa Monica City Council staffers will recommend that the council adopt a resolution to close the airport to aviation uses as part of an effort to shutter the airport by July 1, 2018. The resolution is expected to be adopted, but first those of us who are attending the council meeting are going to have to listen to an endless barrage of anti- and pro-airport opinionators voicing the same old reasons why the airport should be closed or remain open.

The resolution contains some interesting claims by the city, but it doesn’t address the big elephant in the room: the city’s instrument of transfer agreement after World War II to keep the airport open in perpetuity. That is subject to yet another legal battle, which is expected to go to trial next year. I’m assuming that’s why the city claims that it can close the airport in 2018.

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