Officials Assail LAX Plan to Buy Municipal Airport
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City officials have made it known that they are not pleased with one of the plans to expand Los Angeles International Airport.
In a letter sent Wednesday to airport officials, Mayor Larry Guidi and the City Council outlined why they are displeased with LAX’s fourth plan to buy Hawthorne Municipal Airport in order to help accommodate as many as 93 million passengers by 2015. Under the plan, the municipal airport would be used by commuter airlines that now use LAX.
“I have not heard of anyone in support of your Plan 4,” wrote Councilman Mark Schoenfeld, who wrote the letter, which was signed by the four other City Council members. “[It] makes 90 families homeless immediately west of the field by condemnation of their homes.”
LAX officials recently held a series of public meetings for residents, businesses and government entities to comment about the expansion plan.
Now the airport will incorporate these comments into a draft environmental impact report, which is scheduled to be submitted to the Los Angeles City Council in September.
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