A 1958 Comprehensive City Planning Report for the City of Pompano Beach, prepared by Smith & Gillespie, Engineers of Jacksonville, Florida, recommended closing or drastically curtailing operations at Pompano Beach's Air Park.

The long range plan also proposes discontinuance of he present airport facilities, and the possible relocation of similar or augmented facilities in the more open county area, if need be. The present facilities are confined to private and charter plane service of limited scope. From the standpoint of hazard to the public, the proximity and ultimate population density of existing residential zones preclude the feasibility of extending the runways to accommodate the present and indicated future higher landing speeds of commercial aircraft. The hazards of such use would be accentuated further by the attendant increase in air traffic.
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The location of Pompano Beach, midway between the large air transportation terminals of Miami and West Palm Beach, appears ideally suited to inter-city helicopter air service in the foreseeable future. The landing area requirements for helicopter and other vertical take-off plane types are understandably negligible compared to conventional runways. The resultant savings in land space can provide added residential area for an expanding population and area for a center of governmental and civic activities more centrally located with respect to a greater corporate limits area to be conceived through annexation of the urbanized county fringe.

Obviously, this recommendation was never acted upon.