"One San Diego airport option would require 1,065 homes be destroyed"

Sunday, May 21, 2006

One San Diego airport option would require 1,065 homes be destroyed
The Associated Press


OCEANSIDE, Calif. (AP) - As many as 1,065 homes would have to be destroyed
if a new San Diego international airport is built on Camp Pendleton,
according to a new study.

Consultants for the San Diego County Regional Airport Authority studied
three proposed military sites. The analysis concluded that the Camp
Pendleton proposal would be the most disruptive to the surrounding
neighborhood, requiring the destruction of 858 homes on the base and 207 in
the city of Oceanside.

Oceanside Councilman Rocky Chavez called the idea of bulldozing more than
200 homes "totally unacceptable."

If the airport is built on Naval Air Station North Island only 34 nearby
homes would have to be relocated. No off-base houses would have to go if
Miramar Marine Corps Air Station was chosen, but thousands of residents
would be affected by jet noise, according to the report.

In addition to the three military sites, the authority is also studying
three civilian sites in Campo and Imperial County to build a dual-runway
airport to replace San Diego's Lindbergh Field.

The agency is also exploring ways to build a second runway onto Lindbergh,
the country's busiest single-runway commercial airport.

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