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SEPTEMBER 17, 19
WILLIAM HUSTON, CITY MANAGER
COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT DEPARTMENT
OLD BUSINESS NO. 1
9/17/90
Inter - Com
AIRPORT STATUS REPORT - JOHN WAYNE AIRPORT (JWA) PHASE 2
ACCESS PLAN
RECOMMENDATION
Pleasure of the Council.
BACKGROUND AND DISCUSSION
John Wayne Airport (JWA) Phase 2 Access Plan covers the operations
of JWA for Commercial and Commuter airlines from 1990 through 2005.
The City of Tustin has reviewed and commented throughout the public
review process which started in 1988.
The final access plan was scheduled to be presented to the county
Board of Supervisors on September 26, 1990. As part of the
preparation of the final plan, interested parties were requested to
provide written comments on the final Draft Access Plan, the City's
comments were forwarded to the County on August 30, 1990. In our
comments we identified four areas of concern that were not
addressed in the final draft plan, these same comments were
identified to the county in three previous drafts of the plan in
1988 and 1989. The following summarizes the key issues enumerated
by the Community Development Department:
1. Term The terms of this plan will be in effect for 15 years,
a shorter time frame, such as intervals no greater than five
years, needs to be used for re-evaluation of effects during a
time period of rapid change in aviation technology and
industry with significant changes in noise complaints, fleet
mix or proposals for a new airport site triggering a re-
evaluation. There should be a review within two years of the
Plan Adoption so that it is possible to "fine tune" the plan.
2. Approach Noise "Limits" Establish a maximum Single Event
Noise Equivalent Level (SENEL) at monitoring station M5,
similar to those established at other monitoring stations.
City Council Report
Airport Status Report - JWA
September 17, 1990
Page 2
3. Peak Hour Restrictions The County should maintain controls
to limit the number of operations per hour and that operation
should be restricted such that they steadily decrease after
7:00 p.m. This would reduce overflight noise impacts during
the sensitive evening/night time hours.
4. All Cargo Operators The August, 1989, Phase 2 Access Plan
report describes cargo carriers as older, larger, heavier and
noisier aircraft and that cargo operators prefer to conduct
operations during night time hours. The Review and comment
Draft states that, pending additional environmental
documentation and operational information, commercial cargo
carriers will be permitted to request an allocation of Class
E Average Daily Departure's for their operations. There is
however, no discussion of why this would be justified or
consistent with the original Environmental Impact Report for
the airport expansion. We also believe that limitations on
types of cargo carrier aircraft and hours of operation need to
be discussed.
Subsequent to our submission of comments, we received a letter from
Mr. George Rebella, John Wayne Airport Manager, dated August 30,
1990, informing us that the Board of Supervisors took emergency
action on August 29, 1990 to adopt the Phase 2 Access Plan. This
action took place four (4) weeks prior to the scheduled September
26th meeting where the Board of Supervisors were expected to adopt
the Plan. Mr. Rebella noted that although notice of the date
change is not required by law, normally the County prefers to give
notice to interested parties on possible Board actions related to
airport access issues. It appears that the driving force behind
the emergency action was to avoid possible FAA review and approval
of the JWA Phase 2 Access Plan as a condition of its continued
implementation. In his report to the Board of Supervisors, Mr.
Rebella, recommended that public comments received during the
public comment period, and not addressed in the Access Plan adopted
by the Board may be treated as possible amendments to be brought
back to Board on September 25, 1990.
In addition to the unnoticed "emergency" meeting where the Access
Plan was approved, the County has continued to blatantly dismiss
our previous comments.
Community Development Department
City Council Report
Airport Status Report - JWA
September 17, 1990
Page 3
CONCLUSION
It appears there are several courses of action that the City may
take which may affect the final implementation of the Access Plan.
The Mayor could prepare a letter to the Board of Supervisors,
strongly reprimanding their action taken on August 29th, to approve
the plan without public input and requesting their action be
rescinded. The City Attorney's Office could be directed to conduct
an in-depth review of the EIR which was prepared for the Airport
Expansion in an attempt to identify areas of non-compliance with
the approval Access Plan. Lastly, we could wait and see if the
county addresses our comments and incorporates any "amendments"
responding to our comments. It is unlikely that this last scenario
would be viable due to County previously ignoring our input.
Rit Westfield Christine Shing eto
Asst. Dir. Community Development Director of Community Development
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Community Development Department