Review of Palmdale urged

For more than 40 years, Los Angeles has held on to 17,000 acres of land near Palmdale's airport, hoping it could help solve congestion problems at Los Angeles International Airport. Daily News.

And, for most of those years, other than sporadic studies, nothing has been done with the land. The latest effort to have a passenger airline operation at L.A./Palmdale Regional Airport will end this month when United Airlines pulls its single daily flight.

On Wednesday, Los Angeles City Councilman Bill Rosendahl called for a review of the city's plans for the land.

"It's time to get real," Rosendahl said during a meeting of the City Council's Trade, Tourism and Commerce Committee. "Should we just get out of the phoniness that we are planning something out there? We should look at the value of the land we have there and what we could get if we sold it."