Airport Planners on Wrong Path
As a resident of Canyon Country, I am against plans to build a new airport in the Baker Canyon area.
The flight path of the proposed airport is over three elementary schools--Pinetree, Sulphur Springs and Mitchell.
Baker Canyon is a brush area, prone to fires, and its terrain does not make firefighting easy. Even a minor plane crash could destroy large housing tracts--Pinetree, Timberlane, American Beauty, Garden Homes, and others--only half a mile from Baker Canyon.
Those tracts are nice, quiet places to live and raise a family. An airport would cause noise, pollution, additional traffic, and have a negative effect on property values.
If it is really essential that there be a new airport in the Santa Clarita Valley, why not put it on county-owned land around the Wayside Honor Rancho? This would be better for the pilots, better for the public and better for the budget, because Los Angeles County already owns this land.
R.G. BOREN
Canyon Country
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