Los Angeles - In-N-Out Burger Out In New LAX Master Plan?

Story (http://www.labusinessjournal.com/news/2010/nov/01/fight-path/)

Local business leaders said their biggest concern is the proposed reconfiguration of the airport’s North Airfield, which calls for moving at least one runway as far as 400 feet to the north for safety reasons. While the runways would stay within airport boundaries, they said runway protection zones mandated by the Federal Aviation Administration would require an unknown number of Westchester buildings bordering the airport to be seized and demolished under eminent domain.

In effect, it would push LAX into Westchester’s downtown business district, which could force 500 businesses to move or shut down.

“We’d like to keep the business district intact,” said Miki Payne on behalf of a commercial property management and development firm that has hundreds of business tenants in the airport’s vicinity. Among those potentially affected, she said, is a popular In-N-Out Burger restaurant on Sepulveda Boulevard and as many as 200 other small-business tenants on both sides of that street.

Say it ain't so.

Story (http://www.labusinessjournal.com/news/2010/nov/01/fight-path/)

....... mandated by the Federal Aviation Administration would require an unknown number of Westchester buildings bordering the airport to be seized and demolished under eminent domain.........

Got to be kidding!
BOLDED words, scary words :mad:

They could put an In-N-Out in one of the LAX terminals and charge $10 for a burger.

They could put an In-N-Out in one of the LAX terminals and charge $10 for a burger.Too obvious (only 31,994 FT members have viewed the thread, How Do You Do An In-N-Out Run? (http://www.flyertalk.com/forum/los-angeles/545412-how-do-you-do-n-out-run-lax-other-la-area-airports-merged-threads.html)). Too many tens of thousands of people would patronize the place. And it's not politically correct enough. Shut up and eat your tofu salad from the Homegirl Cafe ("where the most difficult-to-place individuals are hired"). Do you want to fly today?

By the time this is done, you'll be able to take the subway from the airport to the In-N-Out's in Culver City or even Westwood, so no worries.

Good luck seizing that number of homes and businesses for a non-critical project. This will be tied up in court for so long, we'll be traveling on space ships before the first wrecking ball swings.