George Patterson wrote:
Judah wrote:

"Land is expensive." So let's take a wonderful historic public airport that
produced revenue and tear it down to install a public park so that people
can take their dogs to defacate..

Not cleaning up is a citable violation. The plan is for a "Nature
Park". IMHO,
Shelter Island in San Diego Bay is a good mixed-use project.


And steal the money that the Federal government gave us to improve another
airport to build the park. Then claim the other airport is now too congested and
ask for even more money to "fix" that problem.

Speaking of the Feds:

"The closed El Toro Marine base officially became private property
Tuesday as Lennar Corp., which won the 3,700-acre former military
airfield in an auction in February, closed escrow with the Navy.

The nation's third largest home builder also signed a development
agreement with the city of Irvine, which annexed the base in 2003 and
named its redevelopment plan the Orange County Great Park.

Under the agreement, Lennar donated 1,375 acres of the land to Irvine
for parks and roads and other public uses and committed to pay $200
million in development fees to fund public works on the site.

In return, Lennar gained rights to build as many as 3,400 homes and 3
million square feet of commercial, industrial and office space."

The fences drop at another public facility, JG.