"Airport Land Use: Council flinches at San Diego County Regional Airport Authority plan"

["Stephen Irwin" <stepheni@xxxxxxxxx>]

Thursday, April 7, 2005

Council flinches at airport authority 
The San Diego (CA) Union-Tribune


OCEANSIDE - The city should not have to make the choice between its airport
and a proposed 90-acre development that would bring jobs and tax revenue,
City Council members said yesterday. 

But they made it clear that the development is their top priority. 

The council voted unanimously yesterday to write a letter to the San Diego
County Regional Airport Authority expressing its concern over a draft report
for land use around local airports. 

Planning Director Gerald Gilbert said he had thought Oceanside's land-use
plans would be respected, but the present draft doesn't do that. 

Gilbert said the council could override the authority document but only by
taking on all the liability for doing so. 

Alan Cruise, president of the Oceanside Airport Association, said the
90-acre parcel known as the Valley Drive-Ins could be developed
commercially, but Councilwoman Esther Sanchez said 90 acres is too big for
commercial alone, and she supports a mixed use, with residences on the
property. 

Residences, especially high-density development, would not fit the draft
plan for the property between the end of the airport runway and Foussat
Road. 

The authority is accepting comments on its plan until April 15.


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