John Doughty, Community Development Director for the City of Watsonville, comments on the Coastal Commission requirement for an aeronautics evaluation and offers an interpretation different than the commission.

John Doughty Interview, April 20, 2000

"The project has to be re-approved by the Department of Education."

"Their (Coastal Commission) final action did not require specific reevaluation by Aeronautics Program. . . It could be the full evaluation or something else."

"We didn't think it was the authority of the Coastal Commission that the evaluation would have to be done. The State Department of Education is the responsible authority. What they require is their call, not the call of the Coastal Commission that CalTrans redo the evaluation."

"I think it was intentional as part of the language that it was to be left to the Department of Education."