California Airports

Airport safety zone plan conflicts with San Luis Obispo’s growth plans – The plan could significantly limit the potential of land the city has long seen as critical to future growth. A plan that could expand the safety zones at San Luis Obispo County Regional Airport is raising concerns about the possible limitations it could force on development. The plan could significantly limit the potential of land the city has long seen as critical to future growth.

As the city began updating its own land-use plan, a key blueprint for development, it became increasingly worried that the safety boundaries were not clearly mapped or defined, said Kim Murry, deputy director of long-range planning.

Caltrans addresses motel project compatability – Some local pilots are concerned that certain types of development in the Capital Hills area will eventually mean constraints on activity at Tehachapi Airport and long-term threats to the viability of the 75-year-old airport.

And a national organization — the Aircraft Owners and Pilots Association — has put the airport on its watch list of 10 airports nationwide that it is most concerned about.

Los Angeles City Council to address Los Angeles International Airport runwayplan in spring – Will Los Angeles International Airport be permitted to move a runway 260 feet closer to Westchester homes and businesses?

That’s now a question for the full, 15-member Los Angeles City Council,which is expected to take it up later this spring.

The project took another step forward earlier this week when two councilcommittees moved jointly to recommend the entire council adopt a LAXproposal to change the configuration of two runways on the north side of theairfield. The Trade, Commerce and Tourism and Planning and Land Use Management committees voted 5-1 in favor of the modernization plan, whichalso includes less controversial items such as an intermodal transportationcenter, a consolidated rental car facility and an automated people mover.

San Jose City Council to consider airport development to house Google planes  SAN JOSE — The San Jose City Council on Tuesday is poised to bolster thecity’s cash-strapped airport by approving an $82 million facility forprivate and corporate jets, including the growing fleet owned by Google’sco-founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin now parked up at Moffett Field.

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Mayor Villaraigosa and Los Angeles World Airports say the price for thestruggling facility must help cover the cost of improvements, but InlandEmpire officials counter that it has a negative market value.

Inland Empire officials seeking control of LA/Ontario International Airportare balking at an unprecedented demand by Los Angeles that they buy thestruggling operation for hundreds of millions of dollars.

Horizon Air Bombardier at Charles M. Schulz-Sonoma County Airport terminalSANTA ROSA — Commercial airline passenger volume at Charles M. Schulz–Sonoma County Airport rose 4.2 percent in March (2013) from a year before, according to figures released today.

More than 16,800 passengers last month flew with Horizon Air, and half of those flyers were visitors to the region, according to a monthly report by the county of Sonoma, which operates the airport. Horizon is the airport’s sole commercial carrier and a subsidiary of Alaska Air Group (NYSE: ALK).

Yuba City Mayor Declares March ‘General Aviation Appreciation Month’ Issues Proclamation Lauding GA For Its Contributions To The City

Yuba City (CA) Mayor John Buckland recently declared March “GeneralAviation Appreciation Month, according to a news release from the Alliancefor Aviation Across America. “The proclamation highlights the vital rolethat general aviation has in supporting businesses, farms, emergencyresponse, and the overall economy. In California, the general aviation industry contributes an estimated $18.2 billion into the economy every year and the aviation system supports 1.7 million jobs in the state.”

Bob Hope Airport noise program to be reduced in sizeFootprint of airport-area home soundproofing will be “much smaller.

Residents living near Bob Hope Airport who have been waiting to takeadvantage of a federally funded residential soundproofing program shouldn’twait any longer.

The Los Angeles Board of Airport Commissioners was scheduled to vote Monday on transferring the lease on the terminal building at LA/Palmdale Regional Airport to the City of Palmdale.

A staff report recommended the commissioners approve the transfer of the 9,000-square-foot terminal building located on 61 acres in the Antelope Valley city. The facility had been leased by Los Angeles World Airports from the U.S. Air Force.

Getting commercial service to the airport has long been a struggle for the city and LAWA. Palmdale officials have said that city control of the terminal would make it easier to bring regular service to the airport.