Airport Makes Strange Bedfellows

Sunday, June 13, 2004
Airport Makes Strange Bedfellows
The Contra Costa County (CA) Times

WHEN YOU’VE SWUM three-quarters of the way across a pond full of alligators, there’s nowhere to go except forward.

That’s why Contra Costa Supervisor Mark DeSaulnier has little political choice but to proceed against the tide of angry pilots and dueling developers with his idea to relocate the county airport and transform the old runways into a transit village.

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Van Nuys, Calif., Airport Officials Reveal Temporary Development Plan

Thursday, June 3, 2004
Van Nuys, Calif., Airport Officials Reveal Temporary Development Plan
The Los Angeles (CA) Daily News

With the Van Nuys Airport master plan stalled, officials at the nation’s busiest general-aviation airport have unveiled a stopgap proposal that could help guide development until a final blueprint is in place.

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South Lake Tahoe Airport Tower Remains Open

Wednesday, June 2, 2004
South Lake Tahoe Airport Tower Remains Open
By Susan Wood
The Tahoe (CA) Daily Tribune

The Lake Tahoe Airport tower dodged another close call Tuesday. On a vote of 4 to 1, the South Lake Tahoe City Council agreed to raise the landing rates to offset the doubling of Federal Aviation Administration-imposed fees.

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Imperial County Airport

Another county hat for Birdsall

By MARC SCHANZ, Staff Writer
Thursday, May 27, 2004 3:36 PM PDT
You might call him the busiest man in the county.

The man whose name adorns every gas pump in the Valley now has another job after receiving the nod by the county Board of Supervisors this week.

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Efforts To Close Buchanan Field Should Stop

The chairman of the House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee says the FAA should consider wresting control of Buchanan Field (CCR) from Contra Costa County unless the county abandons its efforts to close the airport. In a letter to FAA Administrator Marion Blakey, Rep. Don Young (R-Alaska) wrote that continuing efforts to close the airport, while at the same time spending federal dollars to study expanding it, are “inconsistent and wasteful.”

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