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Briefly in the news

-- Paul Clinton

Irked about a South County press release, Orange County’s airport

planning office this week said the anti-airport cities had

“misrepresented facts and incorrectly extrapolated figures.”

The county’s El Toro Local Redevelopment Authority, the planning arm

for an airport at the closed El Toro Marine base, released the statements

in a six-page response.

The county also accused the El Toro Reuse Planning Authority, the nine

South County cities fighting to stop the airport, of exaggerating the

health risks of an airport.

In a news release announcing the submittal of nearly 300 questions and

comments about the county’s environmental report, anti-airport

spokeswoman Meg Waters said the county underestimated the negative

effects of smog and traffic caused by an airport at El Toro.

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