READERS RESPOND -- Why the discrepancy between Newport Beach and

county opinion on El Toro?

Airports bring airplanes. Airplanes make noise. Newport Beach does not

like noise, and that is the reason for the discrepancy. That is why they

don’t want an airport. That’s why they do want an airport at El Toro. If

anybody gives you any other reason, they are not being truthful with

themselves.

GEORGE LAMPINEN

Newport Beach

I was not surveyed. I wasn’t called. However, I am definitely for an

airport at El Toro. I think people are not looking into the future. It’s

really the only good use of that land. We definitely are going to need

something like that, and we can’t afford it around the present airport.

So that’s the future. People aren’t looking far enough ahead.

MARY BELINA

Costa Mesa

Regarding why the discrepancy between the countywide opinion and

Newport Beach’s regarding the airport: I believe most people don’t have

the facts or the vision. South County’s offering a big, beautiful park

versus a big, bad, awful airport is the equivalent of asking a child if

he wants to go to school or play at Chuck E. Cheese all day.

KATHY BAMBECK

Newport Beach

I don’t agree that the survey says residents welcome El Toro. I

certainly don’t. We lived by John Wayne Airport for 11 years, and it was

a beautiful [area]. I think we moved down here in 1964, and after the

jets went in in 1967, eventually we moved over here near the Fashion

Island area in 1976.

And now it’s getting so bad over here that I do not believe that

either John Wayne should be expanded or El Toro should be built, period.

The pilots don’t want it. That mountain is hard to fly over. It should

be something other than what this article says. I don’t know whose survey

this was, but it was definitely businesspeople or travel agents that like

the idea of taking off for the world from El Toro.

I think this survey was not done for all the citizens and residents

and voters of Newport Beach, let alone the whole area of Orange County.

My main thought is an airport should be built out in Ontario that’s

bigger. Anyway, all of California isn’t what it used to be.

SHIRLIE HARAMIA

Newport Beach