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HomeMy WebLinkAboutOB 1 J.W. AIRPORT RPT 12-05-88TO: FROM: SUBJECT: WILLIAM A. HUSTON, CIl~ MANAGER CONMUNI~ DEVELOPMENT DEPARll4ENT STATUS REPORT: JOHN WAYNE AIRPORT (d~dA) NOISE MONITORING PROGRAM, COALITION FOR A RESPONSIBLE AIRPORT SOLUTION (CRAS), AIRPORT SITE COALITION (ASC). RECO~I~ENDATION It l s recommended that the City Council' 1) Receive and file; and 2) Select a City Council representative to serve on the CRAS Board of Directors and instruct staff to inform the current Board of the appointment. DISCUSSION I II II II IIII JWA - The County concluded the noise measurement portion of the program on l~6'~ember 6, 1988. The City has been informed that processing the data collected in this initial stage will take approximately 18 weeks. The City's consultant, Mr. John Van Houten, will be contacting the County to seek permission to review the raw data at their offices so as to be able to provide the City with some idea of test effectiveness prior to March (end of 18 weeks). Staff has also learned from the FAA that the LDA equipment passed its final testing as of November 22, 1988. Pending the completion of an antenna mast and legal transfer of ownership from the County to the FAA, the LDA will become operational in the near future (no specific date was given, but staff was told it should not take longer than two months). CRAS - A recent article published in the LA Times and Orange County Register ~ Attachment I) discussed the results of a poll that CRAS conducted regarding joint commercial-military use of MCAS E1 Toro. The poll showed the £1 Toro site to be an unpopular alternative to JWA. The arttcle does not contain any recommendations for alternate sites by CRAS; however, it does quote a recent FAA study which lists several sites that are under consideration in addition to E1 Toro. According to City of Irvine staff, the CRAS Board of Directors has reserved a place on the Board for a member of the Tustin City Council. As the Council expressed interest in having one of its members serve on the Board, it would be appropriate for the Council to select a representative at this time. Upon this selection, st_~a.ff will notify City of Irvine staff so that they may contact the new Board member and provide them with the necessary background information. ' City Council Report Status Report: J~IA December 5, 1988 Page two ASC - At the November 19th meettng dtscussJons on Site SelectJon Issues and · I T~hntcally !nfeasible Crlterta were wrapped up, and new caucus discussions were held on the appllcatlon of the Technically !nfeas~ble CrJterla as well as Crlterta for Evaluation of Sttes. More detatled Information wt~1 be available by our next status report. There wtl1 be no meetJng held Jn December. Steve RUben Senior Planner Attachment: Attachment ! .C~tsttne' A'. Shtn~letgd Director of Communt t~f Development - , Community Development Department ATTACHMENT 'The Orange County Register Wed.esday, Nov. 16, 1988 El Toro base unpopular as alternate John Wayne Airport, poll shows By Donna Davis The Register , COS'I'A MESA -- A group op- posed to ,joint commercial-military use of the El Toro Marine Corps Air Station released a poll Tuesday showing that area residents are against the plan. The Coalition for a Responsible Airport Solution commissioned the $17~000 survey, which was based on · .zlephone interviews with 500 ran- domly selected registered voters in central a. nd south Orange County. Opposition to the joint use of the military base was widespread, with margins ranging from 2-1 in ,~;anta Ana to 6-1 in Mission Viejo. Only Newport Bea.ch residents sup- 'port it, the survey said. .The survey "proves that resi- dents oppose commercial use of tl~e military base," said Irvine Councilwom.an Sally Anne Miller Sheridan, head of the coalition. Proponents of the joint-use idea, suggested to help relieve overbur- dened John Wayne Airport, called the poll premature and self-serv- ing. "I s.ay wait until all the cards are on the table before coming out with a position against a particular site for a second airport," said Ken De- lino, executive director of the In- tercounty Airport Authority, which is studying several sites. "Their point is another airport is OK anyplace else but in E1 Toro," he said. Sheridan disagreed, saying resi- dents believe joint use "is not safe environmentally." "The traffic, noise and disrup- tion to the quality of life would be untenable," she said. "We want those in positions of power to con- sider the human as well as the technical issues involved." Sheridan said the group would like to eliminate the military base from consideration. Delino, however, said a recent Federal Aviation Administration study shows that the base could be used by airlines. Other sites under consideration include the Los Angeles harbor area, Los Alamitos, Santiago Can- yon, Chino Hills, north Camp Pen- dleton, north San Diego County and March Air Force Base, he said. Newport Beach favors retaining the El Toro site as an alternative, he said, "because we've borne the brunt of John Wayne Airport traf- fic for too many years. We're get- ting 8 million passengers by 1990 and the jets take off right smack in the middle of our city. We think enough is .enough." The coalition says it represents the communities of Irvine, Tustin, Laguna Beach and Leisure World. The area polled, by Opinion Re- search of California, included the cities of Irvine, Newport Beach, Tustin, Mission Viejo, Costa Mesa and Laguna Beach, and portions of Orange, Fouvtain Valley and San- ta Aha.