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Thursday, October 1, 2015
San Diego Community Newspaper Group
www.SDNEWS.com Volume 27, Number 13
Point Lomans rallying against FAA flight plans
Time travelers at Ballast Point
BY DAVE SCHWAB | THE BEACON
PUBLIC MEETING
A Point Loma resident has started an online petition drive that’s garnered more than 2,000 signatures in less than two weeks opposing a Federal Aviation Administration study seeking to change airline flight paths over the Peninsula that some believe could diminish their quality of life. Casey Schnoor, who lives on Hill Street, has set up a website, noplanenoise.com, as well as a corresponding Facebook page titled Point Loma Air Route Forum, to protest proposed regional airline flight changes, including those at San Diego International Airport. “My goal is to maintain –
Howard Warner, commanding officer of Naval Base Point Loma, receives lessons on how to load and shoot a musket from 16th-century Spanish re-enactor Mark Villarino during the Cabrillo Festival at the Navy base on Sunday (Below left) Aztec dancers perform at the festival. (Below right) 16th-century PHOTOS BY THOMAS MELVILLE explorer Juan Rodriguez Cabrillo lands at Ballast Point and claims the land for Spain.
The San Diego County Regional Airport Authority will hold a public community meeting featuring staff from the Federal Aviation Administration from 6 to 7:30 p.m. Tuesday, Oct. 6 at McMillin Event Center, 2875 Dewey Road in Liberty Station. San Diego residents will have an opportunity to get information about the FAA’s proposed SoCal Metroplex. and encourage – air traffic control to use the LOWMA Waypoint at the south tip of Point Loma,” Schnoor said. A waypoint is a latitudelongitude position that airline SEE FAA, Page 20
Peninsula Planning Board supports park and firehouse proposals BY DAVE SCHWAB | THE BEACON Peninsula Community Planning Board got a pitch in September from City Councilmember Marti Emerald, who’s lobbying to put a $280 million city firehouse bond on the November 2016 ballot, as well as getting an update on a proposed pocket park on Canon Street. “This is such a priority for our city that I really felt we needed to step up and start this (ballot) process,” Emerald told planners, adding, “We don’t want to miss an opportunity to put this issue before voters for a (required) two-thirds majority
‘This is such a priority for our city...’ MARTI EMERALD CITY COUNCILMEMBER
vote to build fire stations.” The prospective citywide bond measure would fund 19 new recommended fire stations. A 2011 consultant’s report determined that population growth, as well as travel over the city’s many canyons SEE PENINSULA, Page 5
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