Pignataro A friend once told me the only limit to how big a goldfish can grow is the size of its bowl. As long as you keep feeding it, it ll keep growing.
Airports are like that, too.
They start small, but as the years go by, they expand to include bigger terminals, more arrival and departure gates, and, most ominously, more runways. The only way to guarantee an airport won t grow is to kill it on the drawing board. The residents and cities opposed to the county s plans to build a massive international airport at El Toro understand this. Neighborhoods that were okay until the jets started flying in 1959 went into the toilet after that. The city poured huge resources into the area extra police, assessment districts, improved lighting.