Reply #9: "population encroachment" is bullshit

[Sen. Walter Sobchak]

People who buy housing next door to an airport or base should not be a consideration in the opperation of that facility in anything but the most extreme of circumstances.

Short of invading Mexico there are very few good alternatives for a new airport in San Diego other than Miramar. But low and behold only 65 miles away (runway to runway) is El Toro with 2x 8000 foot runways and 2x 10000 foot runways.

Since Orange County (of which I am a resident) has utterly failed to do anything of significant with El Toro since it was decommisioned as a result of a pair of ballot initiatives - the scourge of California politics - I think it is only fair that it be returned to the military to be used in place of Miramar.

Orange County not taking advantage of El Toro is just fucking stupid - the county could bring in hundreds of millions if they were to redevelop Santa Ana\John Wayne and were up for hundreds of millions from Washington if they were to develop a commercial airport at el toro.

But thanks to the spoiled assholes in Nimby Beach we can't build anything here anymore.

Ofcourse, the loudest airplanes in the area are not commercial jets - but 1970's business jets owned by the said assholes.