Let's shape the future of Santa Monica Airport site together.
This website will keep you updated on what is happening with the planning process, and how you can get involved. Check back periodically for updates.
PROCESS
Welcome to the Santa Monica Airport Conversion Project (SMACP) community engagement website.
The Santa Monica Airport Conversion Project is a once-in-a-lifetime planning effort for Santa Monica to create a preferred scenario centered on a great park, consistent with Measure LC. The future scenario will enhance connections to the rest of the city, create a quality public realm and increase the quality of life for residents, workers, and visitors of Santa Monica. The public process for this project is consistent with past City Council direction to establish a plan for future use of the land, and to address the community’s interest in the creation of parks, recreation, cultural, and educational amenities and to address community goals and priorities as they relate to current and future generations. To understand the legal frameworks and history, please visit the City of Santa Monica's Project Website.
Learn more about the plan and share your thoughts and ideas below!
PROCESS
There are five distinct planning phases within a 21-month process (with Phase 3 containing two sub-phases—3A and 3B). Click on the phases below to learn more about the intent and components of each phase. Products resulting from each phase, including key takeaways from analysis and assessments, project material, and takeaways from community input will be added to this site as the project advances.
Each phase of work includes distinct tasks in the process of generating a preferred scenario for the future of the Santa Monica Airport site. Throughout each phase of work, the project team will engage with the community through a variety of in-person and online events and activities. Ahead of moving on to each next phase of work, the planning team will meet with the Santa Monica City Council to report progress, findings, and community input collected and receive direction.
HISTORY
What's On the Site Today
Community Conversations (2010-2013)
A decade before the Santa Monica Airport Conversion project and just before Measure LC was approved by voters, a community visioning process examined the airport’s non-aeronautical lands (approximately 40 acres) to imagine future uses.
A measure designed to exert local control over airport decisions, predominantly as they relate to permitted land uses, leaseholds development, and aviation activity.
Santa Monica Airport to Park Conversion Report (2018)
As part of the ongoing Park and Recreation Master Plan update, the City commissioned a study to explore potential pathways to realize the Airport to Park concept. This study became an appendix to the draft plan that was released ahead of the final Park and Recreation Master Plan update.
Community Concepts (2012-Today)
Community-led organizations, such as Airport to Park (A2P), brought together interested members of the community to champion the closure of the airport and its future transformation into a great park.
