City says any changes to runway or other facilities will need conditional use permit
A proposal for tighter city controls on any expansion or addition to the runway or other facilities at McClellan-Palomar Airport received support last week from the Carlsbad Planning Commission.
County officials have said the changes could interfere with improvements needed to make the airport more safe for its users, which are mostly private and corporate aircraft. Lengthening the airport’s only runway by a few hundred feet is in the county’s long-term plans. However, there is no funding for construction or the additional engineering and design work needed for that.
“We have airplanes flying over our homes, our schools and parks all hours of the day and night,” Sung said. “The single-engine planes are low and loud and dangerous … then you have the large jets who are screaming over our rooftops … right over the tennis courts and the paddleball courts at Poinsettia Park.”
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