Airports
Santa Monica Lays Out Planning Process for KSMO Closure
The Santa Monica city council has approved a process to plan the "reimagining" of the Santa Monica Airport property.
Santa Monica Airport (Photo: Friends of Sunset Park in Santa Monica)
The city is laying out a process for determining new uses for the land where Santa Monica Airport is situated. (Photo: Friends of Sunset Park in Santa Monica)

The city of Santa Monica has taken the next steps to shutter California's Santa Monica Airport (KSMO) later this decade with a recent city council approval of a process to review future potential land uses.

"This is the very beginning of a community process to reimagine the airport site, which accounts for an unprecedented 4.3 percent of the city’s land,” said Mayor Gleam Davis after the city council vote in late January. “We know this is an asset Santa Monicans care about and we want to work together to set goals and priorities to meet diverse community needs for the next several generations.”