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Airport Plan Skids to a Halt

EL TORO, CA-The proposed El Toro airport-conversion may have met its final defeat this week, as Orange County voters approved ballot measure W. The approval has been followed by the Navy's announcement that they may sell off the property in a public sale.

By Erin Cassin | Updated on March 07, 2002

EL TORO, CA-It looks as thought the long-raging battle over the proposed El Toro airport-conversion has finally ended, as Orange County voters approved the anti-airport ballot measure W this week.

The measure, which calls for the rezoning of the 4,700-acre former El Toro Marine Base into a park, passed by more than 57%. Its approval signals the end of an eight-year controversy over whether or not to build an airport at the base. “I just don’t see an airport coming back onto the radar screen,” says Marty Stradtman, the chairman of NAIOP Southern California’s Legislative Action Committee.

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