Santa Monica Airport
The airport site represents a once-in-a-century opportunity and an enormous planning responsibility. Decisions about its transition affect open space, housing pressure, transportation patterns, the environment, and the city budget for decades. It deserves a genuinely public process.
// the area today
The Area Today
Site acreage
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Source: City of Santa Monica planning documents
Current planning phase
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Source: City of Santa Monica
Adjacent neighborhoods
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Source: City planning data
Challenges
- Competing visions for open space, housing, recreation and economic use
- Environmental remediation and site preparation costs
- Traffic and access impacts on surrounding neighborhoods
- Keeping a decades-long process accountable to residents
Opportunities
- A signature great park for the region
- Recreation and youth facilities the city currently lacks space for
- Room for civic, educational, or workforce uses
- A transparent, well-documented planning process residents can follow
My perspective
This is the decision I most want handled in the open. Whatever the mix ends up being, residents should be able to see every option, every cost, and every tradeoff in plain language before it's locked in. I lean strongly toward substantial public open space.
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// resident input
What's happening in Airport?
If you spend time in this part of the city, tell me what you're seeing here — the problem, the block, and what would actually help.