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Santa Monica Airport Landing Fees to Soar, Include Local Light Aircraft
The Santa Monica City Council approved an increase in landing fees at the Santa Monica Airport Tuesday. The fees will more than double from $2.07 to $5.48 per 1,000 pounds of aircraft by Aug. 1. As part of the proposal, all aircraft based at the airport, including those owned by local flight schools, will be charged the fees. They are currently exempt. (santamonica.patch.com) Daha Fazlası...Sort type: [Top] [Newest]
I don't understand people. Why purchase a home near an airport in the first place if they don't like aircraft?! They know there is going to be noise. The airport officials have worked with the city by having noise limitations after certain hours or close overnight. Yet The people are not content with that and all join up to try to close the airport like their doing with Santa Monica. Apparently they drive everywhere because they don't seem to balk at the non-stop freeway noise or polution.
Bean counters where never good aviators. Hopefully this will not result in less training to the pilots thus reducing the safety of operation. I wonder how the same people will react, when the first accident in the vicinity of the airport will be connected to lack of training. I can already imagine the outcry. Flight school and charity flights should still be excempt.
This looks a lot like an end-run effort to reduce airport usage to a point where the city council can no longer justify spending any money on an airport that does not get used. The council will say their efforts to have users help fund the airport simply didn't produced the intended revenue. It is highly likely that developers already have their eyes on the property and are lobbying to help an airport-closure agenda along.
I used to have a business in the People's Republik of Soviet Monica. It is the most business unfriendly place in southern California, LA being neck and neck with them.
The City Council is elected by rent control voters who have a good deal and just about everyone who moved into a home by the airport knew it was there, some may have just been born to a home there.
SM is about as leftist/communist as you can get in California and if the airport were being used is smuggle in illegal aliens, the city council would give it a subsidy instead of higher fees.
Hopefully someone will challenge the fees in court, but the blood suckers of SM have unlimited funds to screw people. I am SO glad I moved out of SM and even more glad I've moved out of LA.
The City Council is elected by rent control voters who have a good deal and just about everyone who moved into a home by the airport knew it was there, some may have just been born to a home there.
SM is about as leftist/communist as you can get in California and if the airport were being used is smuggle in illegal aliens, the city council would give it a subsidy instead of higher fees.
Hopefully someone will challenge the fees in court, but the blood suckers of SM have unlimited funds to screw people. I am SO glad I moved out of SM and even more glad I've moved out of LA.
So, what developers have the inside track for putting up houses for an infill project after the airport closes?
Santa Monica Airport does not accept Federal funding. The offices they lease out there have some of the lowest rents on the Westside