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Group makes case for east Miramar airport
By: DAVE DOWNEY - Staff Writer | ∞
SAN DIEGO ---- A citizens group made a case Tuesday, in a presentation at San Diego State University, for moving San Diego County's regional airport to Miramar Marine Corps Air Station ---- but not at the base's airfield.
Members of the group, the San Diego Regional Airport Citizens Coalition, said the group undertook its own independent study of potential sites for a new international airport and concluded that the best location is five miles east of Interstate 15, on the other side of the freeway from the existing runways on the 23,000-acre Marine base.
The group's members include San Diego business people and Point Loma residents near Lindbergh Field.
The nation's busiest single-runway airport, Lindbergh served 17 million airline passengers in 2005 and it is projected to reach 30 million passengers by 2030. However, the San Diego County Regional Airport Authority, which operates the airport and had been studying sites for a new airport, maintains the 661-acre site won't be able to handle that predicted 2030 traffic ---- much less continue to serve the region well beyond that.
The agency says the best place to put in airport is at Miramar. The coalition maintains it would be better to build the runways east of I-15, to avoid showering the influential communities of La Jolla, University City and Poway with jet noise. They said Scripps Ranch residents would still hear some noise.
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Pete wrote on Aug 16, 2006 6:24 PM:This idea is not feasible. The mountains to the East prevent the FAA - required maximum glide slope when clearing the mountanis by 2000 feet. Military and civilian aircraft would still be competing for the same airspace. The SDRAA studied this option and would have to move 3 times the dirt used to dig the Panama Canal. Also, the terrain is unsuitable, and the area an environmental and wildlife preserve that is compensation for development in Rancho Santa Fe, Scripps Ranch, Tierrasanta, University City, and Sorrento Valley. A bad idea whose time has not come!
Richard wrote on Aug 18, 2006 10:11 PM:Pete (Comment on Aug 16) obviously didn't see either SANDAG'S recommendation for East Miramar in 2002 or Schumacher's more recent proposal for East Miramar. His glide slope data and dirt removal data are both incorrect. I guess he just wants to sit back and laugh in 2020 at the Scripps Ranch crowd who are being taken in by the politicians like Plesia who are in cahoots with the developers. When the latter get through with cutting a deal with the Navy like Manchester did the I-15 will be in gridlock and instead of a slight murmur of airplanes Scripts Ranch will be listening to the impatient honking of car horns from early morn til' late at night.
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