A large, city-owned open area on the eastern edge — aviation history, creative and cultural tenants, Airport Park, and the city's biggest long-range land use question.
What we love
The area today
Site area
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Awaiting verified data
Existing park acreage
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Awaiting verified data
Planning status
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Awaiting verified data
Statistics and city data are placeholders until verified sources are added.
Issues & challenges
New buildings, land use decisions, and long-range planning.
Access to parks, fields, courts, playgrounds, and programs.
Climate resilience, urban canopy, water, waste, and biodiversity.
How people move — walking, biking, buses, the E Line, and driving.
Plazas, promenades, sidewalks, and the quality of the shared outdoor room.
Artists, venues, murals, performance, and cultural institutions.
Markets, festivals, cleanups, concerts, and neighborhood gatherings.
Cleaning, permits, response times, and everyday municipal service quality.
Opportunities
Projects & ideas
No projects or proposals have been added for Santa Monica Airport Area yet. Community concepts, city projects, and experiments will appear here.
Community
Local stories and memories will be collected here.
Community photo contributions are not open yet.
Idea submission and neighborhood polls are planned.
Local groups and events will be listed here.
On the map
Keep exploring
City Hall, the Civic Auditorium, courthouse, Tongva Park, and the campus of public buildings between Downtown and the beach.
Sports fields, dog parks, and open space on the edge of the airport land — and the seed of a much larger park idea.
Three car-free blocks of shopping, street performance, and public gathering between Wilshire and Broadway.
The southeastern residential neighborhood surrounding the college and the airport, with single-family streets and local schools.
Part of the Explore Santa Monica project
