The proposed high school is unsafe and not approvable due to proximity to airport runways and existing aeronautics traffic patterns, says Bernard Feldman of Watsonville. The High School Site is Unsafe. Watsonville is more like Wonderland than anything resembling a democratic institution. Consider, for example, the site selected for a new High School. The process by which a site is evaluated and determined as suitable for a school is elaborate and detailed, and procedures for conducting the evaluation are well documented.
Safety is a foremost consideration in the evaluation.
Schools located within 2 miles of an airport must undergo a separate and special evaluation by the Aeronautics Program of Cal-Trans. Their procedures are also very well documented. The finding was that the entire parcel lay within the airport take-off zone and a school was prohibited anywhere on that site. In late 1991 a request for an evaluatin of eleven potential High School sites was submitted to Aeronautics. It should have been rejected out of hand.