Airbubba:
That parking garage on short final to SAN has been there for a long time. I can remember seeing the keys in the hand of guy getting out of his car on the top deck as I took a military trainer in there years ago. I had lunch at Boom Trenchard's Flare Path restaurant and got the t-shirt.
True, it wasn't built recently. But, it was built during the years I was flying air carriers ops into the airport. It just didn't seem right. So, I believe it was ALPA that obtained the survey data on the building and determined that it should have been determined a hazard during the FAA's Part 77 aeronautical study. That got the FAA a lot of negative press. They finally admitted that they had screwed up. Had they issued the correct determination the building would have either been (if I recall correctly) 38 feet lower or not built at all.
I believe the displaced threshold for Runway 27 became longer because of that building, which wasn't exactly an airport safety enhancement.
