http://www.ainonline.com/news/single...faa-ups-legal-...
It’s up to the city to choose between the options, or suggest another
option that would not restrict access to the airport. The city, which
accepted $9.7 million in federal airport development grants between
1985 and 1994, promised in 1984 to maintain the runway length and
width, the spokesman said, and in any case agreed when the airport was
transferred to the city in 1948 that the airport would be used “for
the use and benefit of the public…without unjust discrimination.

.000001 % of the SoCal Public has ever set foot there.


The spokesman added, “We believe the ban on Category C and D jets
constitutes discrimination and the granting of an exclusive right to
operators of other classes of aircraft.”

http://www.examiner.com/a-1357633~Sa...ment_jet_ban_d...
Residents have complained for years about the potential for a jet to
overrun the runway and crash into nearby homes. The airport is unusual
in its proximity to homes, the nearest of which are within 300 feet of
the runway's end.

Since SM stopped accepting FAA money in 1994, all those "improvements"
have depreciated and its time to pursue the highest and best public
use of the land...JG