[NonNefarious]

Sadly not just CA. Another favorite lie is "safety." Despite the fact that the road going past any given airport has suffered more fatalities in a few years than the airport has seen in its history, land-speculating trash love to trot out the "safety" excuse.

Take the current poster child for corrupt destruction of our airports: Santa Monica. Not one neighbor of that airport has been killed by an aircraft IN A CENTURY. But the street going past it kills a person per year.

And rich, white people who want to goose their property values come out not only to regurgitate discredited FUD, but to complain that the airport is used by rich, white people. Meanwhile they're just fine with a golf course operating next to it during a permanent drought and a "housing crisis."

BTW, Ann Heche crashed her car and burned down a house not far from Santa Monica... where are the calls to shut down that street?