[CPEO-MEF] San Diego airport authority looks at bases

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Bases are next focus of airport authority

By: MARK WALKER
North County Times (San Diego, CA)
October 26, 2005

Four military bases are about to fall into the sights of the San Diego 
County Regional Airport Authority as it considers where the region's 
next airport should be built.

Although the chance of a military base succeeding San Diego's Lindbergh 
Field is considered remote, the state legislation that created the 
authority mandates that it study the bases and consider shared military 
and civilian aircraft use.

Authority board member and Lemon Grove Mayor Mary Sessom said that early 
cursory looks at the bases satisfy the legislation and that she 
considers the Defense Department lands untouchable. No local military 
installation is due for major changes as a result of the recent 
nationwide base closure and realignment.

"They are not available as stand-alone sites and even as joint-use 
airports, they don't solve our problems because of flight capacity 
issues," Sessom said.

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For the entire article, see
http://www.nctimes.com/articles/2005/10/27/news/top_stories/21_31_4310_26_05.txt

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