Airport developments, traffic problems and aging infrastructure topped community members’ lists of concerns during a Point Loma Town Hall meeting Tuesday. Community residents tied planners’ vision for the future to the realistic needs of the present. San Diego Regional Airport Authority representatives, Port District officials, Navy representatives and transportation officials from the San Diego Association of Governments updated about 100 Peninsula residents on the latest project plans for the future of Point Loma. Community members were asked to submit questions to moderators. District 2 Councilman Kevin Faulconer and the other panel representatives then fielded those questions. The format left some residents disappointed because they couldn’t ask panel members questions directly, but they were given opportunities to clarify their questions. As a result, some important issues regarding a growing Peninsula were not adequately addressed, said Christy Schisler, a Point Loma resident and active community member. Officials didn’t adequately address how the city would handle the influx of an expected 11 million people to San Diego by the year 2030 as predicted by San Diego Association of Government (SANDAG) representatives, she said. “All this growth, but the same streets, the same infrastructure,” Schisler said. The planners are changing the “village concept” of Point Loma and the rest of the Peninsula, she added. Faulconer, who serves as the City Council’s audit committee chair, said he’s been working with the rest of the City Council to get the city back into the financial bond markets so the city can raise money to “move forward on long-delayed infrastructure projects.” “It’s particularly important to us here in the Point Loma area, as an older community. We have a backlog of very important projects that we need to get started on,” Faulconer said. The backlog Faulconer touched upon includes street repairs, sewer repairs and water supplies, all of which have been delayed or impaired by the city’s financial status. While city officials repair the city’s finances in order to pay for infrastructure repairs, Peninsula residents must deal with the daily traffic congestion without the supporting road repair or infrastructure such as the needed connection from the westbound Interstate-8 to the I-5 north. The lack of traffic infrastructure makes it difficult to move through and around the peninsula, increasing traffic problems along Rosecrans Street, said Kerri De Rosier, Point Loma Association newsletter editor and 10-year resident. Though SANDAG officials have long-term plans to improve the freeway connections, the city has made slow progress on getting the conjunctions. And with the growing line of projects and other priorities, SANDAG officials said the missing connectors simply aren’t a priority. Though big solutions may be just over the horizon, the town hall meeting revealed that the Peninsula community’s priorities regarding infrastructure would have to yield to larger citywide needs. This seemed to leave some community members dissatisfied. “I would have preferred to see issues more suited toward the Peninsula, more specific to the Peninsula, and I felt like some of the questions were not directly answered,” De Rosier said. She added, however, that the airport representatives did a good job of presenting the airport’s future plans. At the meeting, airport representatives said current long-term planning for the airport would not include any discussion over adding a second runway at Lindbergh Field. Residents and former Peninsula Community Planning Board members have raised concerns over a second runway for years, saying it would further increase noise and traffic in an area where residents are already inconvenienced by both. The Point Loma Town Hall “Visions of Our Future” meeting was hosted by members of the Peninsula Community Planning Board and the Point Loma Association. Presentations given by California Department of Transportation and Navy representatives can be found online at www.pcpb.net.