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Santa Monica Airport Park Funding Reality | Venice Beach News
Santa Monica’s $10 million airport-to-park dream just got a lot murkier. While officials hailed it as a “transformative” step, the funding is actually a vague budget line item—not a grant—allocated through state parks to the conservancy, with no application process. The money can’t be spent until 2029, when the land officially becomes “former airport land,” and the language clearly favors construction, not just planning. This echoes past broken promises: eleven years of talk, zero progress. Planning ≠ building, and calling it a park doesn’t mean it’s funded. Transparency is long overdue…
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