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“Temporary Paradise?” “Lindbergh
Field and North Island, together with the Marine Corps
Depot, Make up a magnificent opportunity for revitalizing the great bay
of San Diego -- the kind of
transformation that is only very rarely
affordable to a major city.”
“Temporary
Paradise?” 1974. Summary
San
Diego's
airport is too small by a
factor approaching ten. Adding to it would compromise Mission
Bay, worsen traffic all around downtown, and retard our economy
without improving airport safety or reducing weather closures. An
addition might serve airport demand for a few more years but would
yield serious opportunity costs.
Our
proposal is to move the airport to roomy, central, East Miramar, to
redevelop the sunny Bay to Bay area as proposed in "Temporary
Paradise?", and to schedule a portion of the resulting new revenue
toward funding natural Habitat, from our coastal lagoons to our
mountains and deserts.
These three ideas complement each other. A better airport and a popular inner city means we could own and beautify more of our natural San Diego. T.A. "Jay" Shumaker, Jr. AIA PS This Airport and Waterfront planning was begun seven years before 9/11. No San Diegan would complicate the current military campaign against terrorism by subjecting our Marines to a city planning effort, thus this current City Planning effort is seen as preserving the option of East Miramar over private development and as anticipatory of an Airport Relocation effort upon the success of our military. Nothing more. -T.A.S., 2006. Airport Slide show This is the Powerpoint Presentation that we gave to the Airport Authority on 4-31-2006 
Bay
to
Bay 
East
Miramar Natural habitat funding |
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