Airport Relations Committee

Committee Chair: Denny Schneider

Meeting date: as needed

Mission: Proactively handles all issues relating to LAX and its impact on the communities served by the NCWP.

Goal: To protect the quality of life in these communities.

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LAX's Northern Runways Are Safe and Should Not be Moved

A NASA panel says the north runways at Los Angeles International Airport are safe and should remain in their current configuration, according to a report released Friday (February 19, 2010). The panel said that while other proposals -- including widening the distance between the two north runways -- might make the airport runways safer, "the risk is so low, reducing that risk by a substantial percentage is of limited practical importance.”

A committee of academics working with the National Aeronautics and Space Administration released a preliminary copy of the report Friday morning at the Flight Path Learning Center near LAX.

Nearby residents had been concerned about the report, fearing it would persuade elected officials to push a runway and surrounding airport land into their neighborhoods.

Airport officials have been trying to determine whether a greater distance between those two runways would reduce the number of near-misses involving arriving and departing jets.

The academic committee was charged with looking at five options. One would involve doing nothing, while a second would push the northernmost runway 100 feet north into Westchester. A third would push the northernmost runway north by 340 feet. A fourth would result in the elimination of one of the two runways on the north side of LAX. A fifth would call on the airport to relocate one of its north runways 340 feet south – a move that would require the demolition of Terminals 1, 2 and 3 at the airport.

As reported by the Los Angeles Times

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Neighborhood Council of Westchester/Playa
NCWP Airport Relations Agenda
Chairperson - Denny Schneider
www.ncwpdr.org

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Date and time: Thurs., January 19, 2012

The Del Rey Church located at 8505 Saran Drive, PDR 90293; where Saran Drive intersects with 82nd & 83rd Streets, one block north of Manchester.

Welcome and Introductions -- Co-chair Craig Eggers

Public Comment on Non-agenda items (Public Comment will also be solicited as each of the items for Discussion and or Action are addressed)

Discussion/Action (Motion)

Items for potential action

1. Update on construction and planning activities at LAX and Northside Development Area. Follow up on our letter to LAWA asking for Master Plan briefing and a minimum 120 days for review of upcoming EIR.

2. Review and discuss Mission Statement and Goals. Indentify activities and positions which are unique to NCWP Airport Relations Committee. Establish distinctions between NCWP AP Relations and other organizations and their positions. Include discussion of each committee member's interest/purpose/reason for being on the ARC.

3. Identify available positive opportunities for working with LAWA (such as buses to the business district and/or wetlands, etc. or other community support ideas).

4. Identify what kinds of info we should ask LAWA to provide to this body as part of the City family.

5. Support Westchester station at Hindry along MTA Crenshaw Line and identify Green line extension options and preferences to LAX. If train does not go directly into airport establish position on how train passengers will connect to a people mover. Establish what we would want as a people mover (Bus Rapid Transit or Light Rail).

6.Establish preliminary plans for handling LAX Master Plan draft EIR review.

For more info: Denny Schneider 310 641-4199 (land) 213 675-1817 (mobile) AirportRelations@WeLiveFree.com

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