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The New Millennium Group is set to give a presentation today in

Newport Beach on its V-plan for a proposed airport at the El Toro Marine

base.

In what they are calling “Wake Up Newport,” group members will

describe their concept, which is an alternative to the county’s airport

plan for the base.

The meeting will be held at 7 p.m. at the Lido Island Yacht Club, 701

Via Lido Sound.

The group is circulating a ballot measure to get the plan put on a

countywide ballot. The plan would realign the base’s crossbar runway

pattern into a “V” shape. Planes would take off into the wind heading

southwest, as opposed to the county’s plan for northerly or easterly

departures.

The group needs more than 71,000 valid signatures to force a public

vote.