Chargers’ concern over FAA issue at Inglewood suddenly disappears
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Chargers’ concern over FAA issue at Inglewood suddenly disappears
Posted by Mike Florio on January 18, 2016, 11:23 AM EST
One week ago, as the L.A. Relocluster was racing toward a still-uncertain conclusion, the proponents of the Carson project were banging the drum about the possibility that the federal government will knock out the Inglewood plan due to Federal Aviation Administration concerns.
The Chargers, as of a week ago, were completely opposed to the Inglewood site for many reasons, including the uncertainty regarding the FAA’s position and potential litigation arising from it. The Chargers feared that the issue could drag out for three or four years, because the FAA or others can tie the thing up in the courts.
Now, as Sandy Mazza of the Torrance (Cal.) Daily Breeze explains, the FAA issue has disappeared, thanks to a belief that through negotiations with the FAA revisions can be made to the structure. With the Chargers reportedly beginning negotiations on Monday an arrangement to join the Rams in Kroenkeworld, the Chargers presumably have abandoned their concerns.
Still, it’s hardly a phantom threat. In 2015, as a last-ditch effort to revive its downtown L.A. project, AEG issued a report from former Homeland Security director Tom Ridge, in which he called the project a potential “terrorism event ‘two-fer’” in light of the possibility that a plane heading for a landing at nearby LAX could be steered into a packed stadium. In a separate column written later in the year, Ridge suggested that laser attacks and/or drones could be used to confuse a pilot or otherwise cause a crash into the stadium.
But now that the NFL is doing a victory lap and the Chargers are reversing course on the doom-and-gloom assessment of Kroenkeworld, the FAA issue becomes another of the many details that will need to be addressed as the stadium moves toward an inevitable 2019 opening.
Chargers’ concern over FAA issue at Inglewood suddenly disappears
Posted by Mike Florio on January 18, 2016, 11:23 AM EST
One week ago, as the L.A. Relocluster was racing toward a still-uncertain conclusion, the proponents of the Carson project were banging the drum about the possibility that the federal government will knock out the Inglewood plan due to Federal Aviation Administration concerns.
The Chargers, as of a week ago, were completely opposed to the Inglewood site for many reasons, including the uncertainty regarding the FAA’s position and potential litigation arising from it. The Chargers feared that the issue could drag out for three or four years, because the FAA or others can tie the thing up in the courts.
Now, as Sandy Mazza of the Torrance (Cal.) Daily Breeze explains, the FAA issue has disappeared, thanks to a belief that through negotiations with the FAA revisions can be made to the structure. With the Chargers reportedly beginning negotiations on Monday an arrangement to join the Rams in Kroenkeworld, the Chargers presumably have abandoned their concerns.
Still, it’s hardly a phantom threat. In 2015, as a last-ditch effort to revive its downtown L.A. project, AEG issued a report from former Homeland Security director Tom Ridge, in which he called the project a potential “terrorism event ‘two-fer’” in light of the possibility that a plane heading for a landing at nearby LAX could be steered into a packed stadium. In a separate column written later in the year, Ridge suggested that laser attacks and/or drones could be used to confuse a pilot or otherwise cause a crash into the stadium.
But now that the NFL is doing a victory lap and the Chargers are reversing course on the doom-and-gloom assessment of Kroenkeworld, the FAA issue becomes another of the many details that will need to be addressed as the stadium moves toward an inevitable 2019 opening.