Oxnard Airport
* My dad was a wise man. He always said the solution to any negotiation is not in taking one side or the other but in finding a solution that both can unite behind.
A recent example is the uniting of opposing forces around a single site for the Cal State University campus. How quickly things happen when we are united.
Because the Oxnard Airport problem is and always will be a siting problem, let’s all get behind the Point Mugu site. Let’s investigate this possibility thoroughly in the hope that a regional airport can be established at Mugu with takeoffs and landings over the ocean.
This along with our new university would certainly add to the tranquillity of the citizens of Ventura County and would help to put the county on everybody’s map.
ROY A. BARNETT
Oxnard
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It is obvious that the county should not control the Oxnard Airport as the majority of supervisors appear to care nothing about the health, welfare and safety of the people in Oxnard.
The board paid no attention to my request that it at least delay the approval of expanded air service until it could examine the school problems in Oxnard caused by the airport. Most of the board seemed to think that the problem is new development. Most of the affected areas are the oldest neighborhoods in Oxnard, predating the Oxnard Airport.
In addition, the airport is destroying the education opportunities for our children to walk to a neighborhood school. The county should pay for the busing that is required because of the airport. Much of the busing is related to not being able to place schools where they are needed in the central city where most of the families with children can afford the older homes.
The best plan would be for the Oxnard Redevelopment Agency to buy the 216 acres of the airport that is in the city and owned by the county with a plan to move or eliminate the airport. The agency can borrow the money without a vote of the people and repay the loan with increment tax derived from the new private use of the upgraded land.
JANE TOLMACH
Oxnard
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