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05.26.17 Volume 16 Issue 167
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Santa Monica Daily Press
Airport Runway to be chopped at both ends BY KATE CAGLE Daily Press Staff Writer
By The Associated Press
LEGEND: RUNWAY OBJECT FREE AREA RUNWAY PROTECTION ZONES RUNWAY SAFETY AREA PROPOSED RUNWAY
TAXIWAY PAVEMENT UNUSABLE NEW TAXIWAY PAVEMENT RUNWAY PAVEMENT TO BE ABANDONED & RE-STRIPED NEW PRECISION APPROACH PATH INDICATOR (PAPI)
RELOCATED WINDCONE RELOCATED RUNWAY END IDENTIFIER LIGHTS (REIL)
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700 FEET: Council has approved a plan to shorten both ends of the runway at Santa Monica Airport.
“That’s over a hundred fewer families who are in the danger zone,” Hernandez said. Hernandez expects construction will be completed by the end of the year. Because the existing runway will be reutilized, the City says the project is exempt from review under the California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA). Despite an outcry from neighbors and a recommendation from the Airport Commission, immediate construction will not include removing the excess 1,500 feet of asphalt no
longer in use by the airport. “If all you are able to achieve by the end of this year is a painting of a line on the runway then I feel you ought to be ashamed of yourself for failing the people who have made it clear they want this airport closed,” Gavin Scott, a Santa Monica resident whose home is currently in the RPZ, told the City Council during a special meeting. Scott says about twelve airplanes fly directly over his house every day. He says each time the rumbling of overhead engines is jarring.
“It’s like someone ripping your brain. It is tearing. You cannot speak. The windows rattle. Your children cannot play in the garden. It is as if the jet is coming through your garden. Again and again and again every day.” The City Council directed staff to come back to them in the future with options to remove the excess asphalt, but stipulated it will be a separate project. Hernandez says completing the construction and SEE RUNWAY PAGE 6
Malibu advocates give unfiltered feedback on purified water fountains BY MARINA ANDALON Daily Press Staff Writer
Malibu parents want permission from local officials to replace water fountains at Malibu schools with specialized water stations that provide electrolyte fortified, filtered water. The May 18 meeting of the Santa Monica – Malibu Unified
Immigration agents arrest nearly 200 in LA-area raids
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The City Council green-lit plans to shorten the runway at Santa Monica Airport Wednesday by removing over 700 feet of take off and landing space at both ends. Construction, tentatively scheduled to begin this fall, may require the airport to completely close for three to seven days, according to a report from engineering consultants at AECOM, while the rest of restriping will be done overnight. Crews will repair the runway, relocate lights and repaint. The shorter runway will effectively shut down business jet charters at SMO, according to a report from airport planning firm Coffman Associates. However, most personal and corporate jets will still be able to fly out of the airport. Overall, the shortened runway will reduce jet operations by 44 percent, from around 16,300 flights per year to 9,000 with an annual increase in traffic between five to ten percent. “The new runway is going to be FAA compliant for the first time,” Senior Airport Advisor Nelson Hernandez said in an interview with the Daily Press. Hernandez said the existing 5,000-foot runway did not have sufficient runway protection zones, with 141 houses in the RPZ. The new runway design reduces the number of homes to 25.
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School District featured a significant discussion of sustainability efforts within the district and a group of Malibu advocates took the opportunity to request installation of the FloWater hydration system at Malibu High School, Malibu Middle School, and Juan Cabrillo Elementary. These stations offer students
and staff drinking water that is purified with three advanced filters; sediment, carbon and advanced osmosis. The system also adds electrolytes. Electrolytes are commonly occurring substances that serve a variety of important functions within the body. Consuming electrolytes following intense exercise
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can help the body rehydrate and electrolytes are present in many common foods as well as specialized sports drinks. The proposal has been taken on by Malibu parents Mindy Peterson, Jennifer Denicola, and Malibu Librarian Sarah Ryan.
Immigration agents arrested nearly 200 people suspected of being in the country illegally in a five-day raid in the Los Angeles area, authorities said Thursday. Ninety percent of the 188 people detained had prior criminal convictions, many for drug offenses and driving under the influence, Immigration and Customs Enforcement said in a statement. The arrests took place through Wednesday as federal immigration agents fanned out across cities including Los Angeles, Santa Ana and Oxnard to arrest immigrants for deportation. The vast majority of those detained were men and more than 75 percent came from Mexico. President Donald Trump's administration has touted an increase in immigration arrests since taking office in January on promises to bolster immigration enforcement. Immigrant advocates have decried many of the arrests, especially those of immigrants without criminal histories. One in five of those arrested had prior convictions for drug crimes. Other offenses on arrestees' rap sheets included domestic violence, sex crimes and battery, the statement said. One of the arrestees was a 29year-old Salvadoran man who was deported in 2014 after he was sentenced to nine years in prison for rape. He later returned to the country illegally, ICE said.
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