In your recent article on the proposed Nickelodeon hotel resort project [off North Harbor Drive at Liberty Station] (page 1, Aug. 16 Beacon, “Nickelodeon’s resort plan grabs limelight”), I saw no mention of its potential to negatively impact the airport.
Does it make sense for the city to approve a new 650-room hotel and 100,000-square-foot water park on a highway we say faces gridlock next to an airport we say is too cramped? And eliminate an airport parking lot to do so?
Since we voters just approved keeping the airport where it is, despite arguments about traffic and space, shouldn’t the city be supporting that vote and doing all it can to turn down optional development projects that are guaranteed to make the airport problems worse?
Perhaps readers who agree that the water park is a terrible idea for the proposed location might contact the Peninsula Community Planning Board, city Planning Commission, and City Council to let them know. I would like to think our opinion counts and that if there was sufficient opposition from airport users, the water park might be defeated. However, from the sign already on the site and the project description on the Marriott website, it would appear that this is already a done deal ” albeit a questionable one.