Santa Monica Airport Report
By Martin
Rubin
Homeowners: Rod Merl, Senior
Administrative Analyst at Santa Monica Airport reports: “The primary
change that has gone into effect as of January 1, 2004 is the additional
notification on the state’s required real estate disclosure statement for
potential buyers of property in an “airport influence” area.
AB 290 which was introduced in this state
legislative session and will carry over to the next session, proposes to amend
this requirement as of 2005 to suggest, unless a city or county adopts a
contrary boundary, that a two-mile perimeter around an airport be the notice
area boundary.”
Noise
from SM Airport traffic:
Jet
traffic at the airport for the month of January was up 7% from January of last
year. There were “44” night arrivals between the hours of 11pm and
7am, of which, “21” registered on the noise
monitors.
At the next SM Airport
Commission meeting, Monday, March 22 at SM City Hall Council Chambers, the
“Annual Noise Report” will be given by Vincent Mestre, noise
specialist for the airport. There are those of us who feel that many noise
impacts from aircraft operations at the airport are completely overlooked by the
noise measuring methods now being used. One of many examples is the fact that
the planes landing at the airport from the East, often avoid flying over the one
noise monitor, placed near the top of a telephone pole, located on Sardis Ave.,
between Stoner and Granville. This gives a false reading of the actual noise
event. If you want to voice your views, the March 22, 7:30pm meeting is the time
to do it. Please attend, and bring all your ideas and suggestions. I know I
will!
Request to know: As noted in
last month’s update, I asked a series of questions regarding noise
complaints to the airport and what good do they do. That, and the reply and the
follow-up to the reply, are posted at the bottom of the Noise/Fume E-Complaint
page at
jetairpollution.com.
GRVNC-Conservation
Committee-Airport Affairs Sub Committee: welcomes all to attend the next
meeting, 7pm, Monday, March 8 at the Vera Davis McClendon Center, 610 California
Ave. The meeting after this meeting will be 7pm, Monday, April 12, at the same
location. Brainstorming ideas has been ongoing at these meetings. I recommend
attending.
Summary of the
February 23 SM Airport Commission
meeting:
The Commission discussed,
for the third straight meeting, possible changes to their present meeting agenda
format. Several residents spoke in favor of changing the name of the
“Noise Management” agenda item to the “Environmental
Report.” Airport staff claimed this, “… might mislead the
public to believe that staff conducts some sort of on-going air quality
environmental investigation…” and that it could,
“…create unreasonable expectations by the public…”
Vice chair Airport Commissioner Ofer
Grossman, who was chairing the meeting due to the chairs absence, steadfastly
argued in favor of the change, but the other Commissioners apparently liked the
agenda format just as it is now, and no action was taken.
After more than six years of public
input regarding our concerns with toxic emissions from jet aircraft operations
at the airport, the city of Santa Monica and airport staff has done virtually
nothing to address this crucial environmental issue.
What they have done is make the city a
haven for corporate jet-setters with limo services available at the airport, and
new developments just a short drive away on Colorado Ave. for office space and
more. There is a dark cloud on the South East side of green Santa Monica, and it
is growing bigger and getting darker.
Prediction: Pretty soon the drizzle of
complaints will become a downpour of protest. As one Santa Monica resident puts
it, “it’s Santa Monica’s dirty little
secret.”
To join Concerned
Residents Against Airport Pollution: jetairpollution.com
479-2529
– Martin Rubin is co-founder
of Concerned Residents Against Airport Pollution.
Posted: Mon - March 1, 2004 at 05:40 PM