REPORT FROM CITY COUNCIL STUDY SESSION WITH SUPERVISOR MOORLACH
The CM PRESS was at the City Council Study Session yesterday (10/9).
We suggested two things that we think the Council and the Supervisors might do to help improve Costa Mesa:
1. COSTA MESA NEEDS A TINY BEACH OR WINDOW TO THE OCEAN
(No, this is not a picture of Katrina Foley and Linda Dixon preparing to be the first two lifeguards at Costa Mesa's Beach)
Supervisor Moorlach said a beach for Costa Mesa might be possible at the mouth of the Santa Ana River and that the City of Costa Mesa can try to acquire that land.
The question now is whether or not our City Council has the vision to do this. This may be the last opportunity that Costa Mesa will ever have to finally become a true coastal community.
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2. FIND A LOCATION FOR A NEW INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT SO JOHN WAYNE CAN STOP EXPANDING
Our suggested location: On part of Camp Pendleton.
Supervisor Moorlach apparently did not fully understand this suggestion because he said that he knew of no plans to close down Camp Pendleton and then talked about the possibility of having maglev trains take people to airports in San Bernardino and Palmdale as alternatives to John Wayne.
WE TRY TO CLEAR UP THE CONFUSION
Camp Pendleton doesn't have to close down for an airport to be built there.
Consider:
John Wayne Airport is 501 acres.
Los Angeles International Airport is 3, 425 acres.
Camp Pendleton is 125,000 acres and has 17 miles of coastline.
In other words, you could fit about 250 John Wayne Airports or 36 Los Angeles International Airports on Camp Pendleton.
Take just a tiny 3% of Camp Pendleton and build an airport there. This would be 3, 750 acres. That's 325 acres larger than LAX and 3, 249 acres larger than JWA. Plus, the planes can take off over the ocean.
This new airport at Camp Pendleton would also have easy freeway access and we wouldn't need to send people on trains into the middle of the desert to get on planes.
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Those are our opinions. Thanks for reading them.
