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We previously shared info and an email about the new online Phase 3A Community Survey about the City’s Airport Conversion Project. We urgently request making your opinion heard by completing the Airport Conversion Project Survey. As we’ve mentioned previously, the survey is complicated and may take some time — the info below is designed to assist you in this process and cut the time to under 10 minutes.
One of the GPC Advisory Committee members prepared a “Voter Guide” to make the survey process quicker and easier — if desired. Using this guide it can take no more than 10 minutes if you generally follow the info and move quickly through the screens without making comments. NOTE: The deadline is April 27th, please take the 10 minutes and knock it out NOW. Take it with your spouse, partner, friends and neighbors so that everyone’s voice is counted.
GPC has edited the Voter Guide to make sure the guide mostly offers you a variety of suggested response choices and what those responses mean. We do feel that to maintain the integrity of the process it is essential that you make up your own mind and we are committed to ensuring the City’s outreach process has integrity and reflects what the public wants.
Again, we need you to participate so we can help make a great park happen for our community.
Staff and the consultants will consider this Phase 3A survey input to create 3 Options for the Airport Site by mid-May, and then in July the City Council will choose one option that will move forward for in-depth refinement and then environmental review. So please help get the Great Park our community deserves!
If you only have 10 minutes. What you do is drag and drop the alternatives in the order you prefer. You can also add comments if you like to each alternative.
Suggested orderings:
• A, B, C, D (to minimize new roads), or
• B, A, C, D (to allow one North/South connector road only), or
• C, D, B, A (if you think there should be more car access)
Suggested orderings:
• B, A, C, D (if you want to de-emphasize natural water), or
• C, B, A, D (if you don’t want a big lake), or
• C, D, B, A (if you want to emphasize natural water)
Comment: Integrate some water into our Great Park & don’t keep it all underground!
Choose the level of Ecology & Passive Uses that you would like to see in the Great Park.
Choose the level of Active Park Uses that you would like to see in the Great Park.
The Great Park Coalition supports the creation of a park that complies with Measure LC to avoid a ballot measure that will likely delay closure of the airport at the end of 2028.
• For this reason we suggest this order: A, B, C, D
After ordering, there are a number of questions about the specifics of housing. These questions are optional, and you can choose to check “no housing” options. You can also choose to answer if you want to give input in case there is housing in the future (which again, would require a ballot measure), and that is up to you.
Suggested comments: Please build a park that complies with Measure LC and does not trigger another ballot measure.
Suggested orderings:
• B, C, A, D (to allow “small” revenue generation in/around the park, plus adaptive re-use), or
• A, B, C, D (to emphasize adaptive re-use, minimize overt use of park space for revenue)
For #41 – choose #1
Notes: This question is confusing as it is unclear which proposed uses are LC compliant. The GPC is supportive of revenue-generation uses like permitting sports fields, bike rentals, and snack shops if they can be implemented without a ballot measure (an open question at this point), but not supportive of uses that would definitely require a ballot measure such as housing, which also will privatize the land, take away public park and recreation space, and might not generate any net funds for the park.
GPC suggests we please support prioritizing revenue generation options that generally will remain on the sides of the Great Park, and be located in existing adaptively-reused structures.
The California Department of Transportation (Caltrans) seeks public input on extending 3.1 miles of bus lanes during peak hours on Lincoln Blvd. from Venice Blvd. to West Manchester Ave.
Caltrans is conducting an Extension of Bus Lanes on Lincoln Boulevard Feasibility Study to identify community needs, advance a more efficient and equitable transit network, maximize the use of existing right-of-way, and improve the speed and reliability of transit services.
Santa Monica Spoke supports completing the bus lanes on Lincoln Blvd. As the primary transit service provider in this area, Big Blue Bus also fully supports this project. Expanding bus-only lanes on Lincoln Blvd. will not only reduce travel time for transit riders but will help alleviate traffic pollution and congestion for everyone—motorists, people riding bikes and walking—making our streets safer and our air cleaner.
Attend Caltrans’ Open House
Wednesday, April 16, 2025
5:30 p.m. – 7:00 p.m.
Oakwood Rec Center,
767 California Ave., Venice, CA 90291
Take the Caltrans Survey
Those who can’t attend the in-person meeting can take an online survey to provide feedback on proposed alternatives and share their experiences with the area. All survey comments will be incorporated into the study and project planning process. The survey will be available until Wednesday, May 7, 2025.
