CC RESOLUTION 4008ARESOLUTION NO. 4008
A RESOLUTION OF THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF EL SEGUNDO,
CALIFORNIA OPPOSING THE LOS ANGELES INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT (`LAX')
MASTER PLAN EXPANSION PROPOSED CHANGES TO THE CITY OF LOS
ANGELES DEPARTMENT OF AIRPORTS OPERATIONS AND FACILITIES
DEVELOPMENT FOR PROJECTED YEAR 2015 GROWTH
WHEREAS, the City of Los Angeles Department of Airports is developing
a Master Plan for LAX for the development and operation of the airport through the
year 2015, and the City Council opposes the proposed plan including the plan for
expansion of passenger volumes and cargo volumes at LAX;
WHEREAS, the City of Los Angeles Department of Airports has held a
community forum in El Segundo to propose four alternative plans for the future
expansion of operations at LAX; and
WHEREAS, the City Council has received communication regarding the
four plans from the El Segundo Aviation Safety & Noise Abatement Committee, the
City advisory committee on airport issues and general community organizations which
include El Segundo Residents Association, and the El Segundo Taxpayers
Association, and numerous individual citizens and businesses; and
WHEREAS, the City Council opposes the construction of new runway(s)
or new taxiway(s) closer to El Segundo than the existing South Runway Complex,
including any plan to relocate any existing South Complex runway(s) or taxiway(s)
closer to El Segundo; and
WHEREAS, t. -ie City Council opposes the South Complex having more
passenger gates than the North Complex and the resultant increases in noise and
airfield operations on the City of El Segundo; and
WHEREAS, the City Council opposes the disproportionate development
of cargo facilities at the South Complex with the resultant increase in noise and airfield
operations to the City of Ef Segundo; and
I!i WHEREAS, the City Council opposes the four concepts since none
shows the impact vehicula:- traffic will have on local roads built before LAX became a
regularly scheduled jet aircraft airport, and how in the design, a choking effect will be
averted; and
WHEREAS, the City Council opposes the four (4) LAX Expansion
Concepts as they do not mention the effects these concepts for massively increasing
aircraft and vehicular volurnes will have on the air quality andair pollution on the City
of El Segundo and surrounding jurisdictions; and
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WHEREAS, the City Council opposes the four (4) LAX Master Plan
Expansion Concepts as they fall short in incorporating other Department of Airports'
properties -- Palmdale and Ontario Airports -- and other regional airports in a "fair
share" balance of operations for the five (5) county region which increases the
negative impacts of LAX on the City of El Segundo.
NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED, that the City of El Segundo
City Council objects to and opposes the four (4) presented LAX Master Plan
Expansion Concepts as they will jeopardize the safety, health and quality of life of all
residents and businesses in the City of El Segundo for the commercial gains of the
City of Los Angeles Department of Airports, and by the adoption of this Resolution
responds to the City of Los Angeles, Department of Airports' overtures for the opinions
of the City of El Segundo regarding the proposed expansion of LAX for year 2015
growth.
The City Clerk shall certify to the passage and adoption of this
Resolution; shall enter the same in the book of original Resolution of said City; and
shall make a minute of the passage and adoption thereof in the records of the
proceedings of the City Council of said City, in the minutes of the meeting at which the
same is passed and adopted.
PASSED, APPROVED AND ADOPTED this 15th day of April, 1997
ATTESTED:
Cin y Mortesen, City Clerk (SEAL)
APPROVED AS TO FORM:
ark D. hensley, City Attorney
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Sandra Jacobs; MAyor
City of El S9�gund,6, California
0, CERTIFICATION
STATE OF CALIFORNIA ]
COUNTY OF LOS ANGELES ] SS
CITY OF EL SEGUNDO ]
I, Cindy Mortesen, City Clerk of the City of El Segundo, California, DO HEREBY
CERTIFY that the whole number of members of the City Council of the said City is five;
that the foregoing resolution, being RESOLUTION NO. 4008 was duly passed and
adopted by the said City Council, approved and signed by the Mayor or said City, and
attested by the City Clerk of said City, all at a regular meeting of the said Council held
on the 15th day of April, 1997, and the same was so passed and adopted by the
following vote:
AYES: Mayor Jacobs, Mayor ProTem Wernick, Councilwoman
Friedkin, Councilman Weston, and Councilman Gordon
NOES: None
ABSENT: None
ABSTENTION: None
NOT PARTICIPATING: None
WITNESS MY HAND THE OFFICIAL SEAL OF SAID CITY this 17th day of April,
1997.
ndy Mortesen, City Clerk
of the City of El Segundo,
California
(SEAL)