Editor:
I think we need to change the name of the Airport Commission to something which is not so misleading ("Airport Commission recommends starving SMO," March 3). I thought commissions were generally groups who worked for the betterment of something they were supposed to represent. Can you imagine a police commission who advocated eliminating the police force and releasing all the people in jail or a coastal commission who wanted to dump toxic waste into the ocean?
The Airport Commission is nothing more than a group of property owners who want to enrich themselves by removing a property use which was there before them and was a contributing reason they could even afford to move there in the first place. In this spirit, why don't we have a housing commission composed of people who want to eliminate low-income housing and rent control. The idea is no less crazy that what we've got for the airport.
Frank Greenberg
Santa Monica
Originally published in the Santa Monica Daily Press print edition on March 7, 2014. Read the original PDF.