MONTEREY, Calif. —

After leaving the Bay Area in the late 1990s, Nancy Runyon arrived on the Central Coast to “semi-retire” in an old Monterey neighborhood by the sea where if you crane your neck just right from her front porch, “you can see a sliver of the blue,” she told SFGATE. Her 1920s bungalow is near the Monterey Regional Airport.

This proximity didn’t bother Runyon and her neighbors at first. Nor should it have. After all, their historic neighborhood that overlooks Old Fisherman's Wharf , Cannery Row and parts of Monterey Bay is a good 4 miles from the actual airport.

And it’s the same California airport that has been long celebrated for its quaintness and ease — a bygone ad campaign called Monterey “America’s most convenient airport” — as its single terminal offered access

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