HomeMy WebLinkAbout99-85 - El Toro Aviation Reuse & JWA Commercial Airport Operations• RESOLUTION NO. 99- 85
A RESOLUTION OF THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF NEWPORT BEACH
SUPPORTING A COMMUNITY FRIENDLY COMMERCIAL AVIATION REUSE OF EL
TORO AND CONTINUED COMMERCIAL AIRPORT OPERATIONS AT JOHN WAYNE
AIRPORT (JWA)
WHEREAS, the Orange County Board of Supervisors has been designated by the
Department of Defense (DOD) as the Local Redevelopment Agency (LRA) responsible
for planning and implementing a Community Reuse Plan (CRP) for MCAS El Toro (El
Toro); and
WHEREAS, the LRA has adopted a CRP that contemplates a commercial aviation reuse
of El Toro and is in the process of preparing an Airport System Master Plan (ASMP),
Airport Layout Plan (ALP) and related environmental impact report (EIR 573); and
WHEREAS, the ASMP and EIR are based on the assumption that El Toro and JWA will
function as a two- airport system with the combined facilities capable of serving the vast
majority of Orange County air transportation and air cargo demand over the next twenty
years; and
WHEREAS, the implementation of the ALP and ASMP is proposed to be phased to
coincide with demand and revenue available to fund construction of the facilities
necessary to transport air passengers and air cargo; and
• WHEREAS, the LRA's commitment to implementation of the ALP and ASMP should be
limited to a time frame within which experts can make reasonably accurate predictions of
the air passenger and air cargo demand; and
WHEREAS, the residential communities under the approach and departure patterns of
JWA have the highest property values in the County because of the "community friendly'
manner in which the Board of Supervisors operates JWA; and
WHEREAS, like JWA, the property values around El Toro would be fully protected
against any adverse impact the if the LRA adopted and implemented nighttime noise
restrictions that gave South County residents a level of protection from noise impacts
that is comparable to that enjoyed by residents around JWA; and
WHEREAS, the resident of many North, Central and West Orange County Cities are
currently subject to traffic congestion and air pollution caused by the inability of Orange
County residents and businesses to find adequate air transportation in Orange County.
This congestion and pollution will increase as development proceeds in the communities
around El Toro and travel times to airports such as Ontario and LAX double during the
next twenty years; and
WHEREAS, the failure to convert El Toro to a commercial airport will significantly
increase the potential for a costly and potentially damaging expansion of JWA — an
• expansion that would result in a significant increase in noise experienced by residents in
many communities including Tustin, Villa Park, Orange, Newport Beach, and Costa
Mesa; and
• WHEREAS, the failure to convert El Toro to a commercial airport will (a) adversely
impact the Orange County economy and the economy of many Orange County Cities;
(c) reduce the potential for increases in residential and commercial property values in
many Orange County Cities in the long term; and (d) significantly increase the price of
air transportation for all Orange County residents and businesses.
NOW, THEREFORE, THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF NEWPORT BEACH
RESOLVES AS FOLLOWS:
1. To support the LRA in their efforts to plan for, and implement, a
commercial aviation reuse of El Toro including the adoption of an ASMP and EIR 573;
2. To support adoption of an ASMP that assumes continued commercial
aviation operations at JWA with no expansion of the physical facilities and no change in
operational restrictions when compared to those facilities and restrictions in place as of
the date of this Resolution;
3. To support adoption of an ASMP that evaluates the aviation needs of
Orange County for the next twenty.years.
4. To support implementation of the ASMP only to the extent necessary to
serve forecast demand in 2010. Air passenger demand in 2010 is assumed to be
approximately 18 map with the majority of demand in domestic markets and international
markets in Canada, Mexico and Central America;
• 5. To support adoption and implementation of restrictions that give
communities around El Toro protection from nighttime aircraft noise that is comparable
to the protection enjoyed by the residential communities in the JWA approach and
departure corridors.
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6. To encourage the LRA to consider and approve or advocate approval of
noise mitigation measures that minimize or eliminate any noise impacts associated with
a commercial aviation reuse of El Toro.
Adopted on the 13`h day of December 1999.
ATTEST:
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STATE OF CALIFORNIA }
COUNTY OF ORANGE
CITY OF NEWPORT BEACH }
I, LAVONNE M. HARKLESS, City Clerk of the City of Newport Beach, California, do
hereby certify that the whole number of members of the City Council is seven; that the foregoing
resolution, being Resolution No. 99 -85 was duly and regularly introduced before and adopted by the
City Council of said City at a regular meeting of said Council, duly and regularly held on the 13th day
of December, 1999, and that the same was so passed and adopted by the following vote, to wit:
Ayes: Thomson, Glover, Adams, Debay, Ridgeway, O'Neil, Mayor Noyes
Noes: None
Absent: None
Abstain: None
IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto subscribed my name and affixed the
official seal of said City this 14th day of December, 1999.
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City Clerk
Newport Beach, California