Table of Contents - Highlights


NEWS SECTION
Today's Headlines - With Links to full text of newspaper articles
News Archive - by month from 1996

Note: Except for the News pages above, not all parts of this website have been updated since the defeat of the airport project.

Airport Plans - History of the Changing Plans
LA bid to take over El Toro - 4/9/03

Newport Beach grant of $3.7 million to fight the park - Follow the money trail.
Airport Working Group Form 990
Letters to the Website from elected officials with their positions on El Toro

Litigation - Completed summary of all the El Toro lawsuits
Media Commentary and Cartoons - the best of the bunch from the early years of the reuse debate

ELECTIONS SECTION
Text of OC Central Park and Nature Preserve Initiative - Measure W
Ballot Title and Summary of Park Initiative
March 2002 Measure W Voters Pamphlet Statements
Who Pays for Parks and Museums
Vote on 2002 Measure W, by City and Supervisorial District
Text of Safe and Healthy Communities Act - Measure F
Vote on 2000 Measure F, by City and Supervisorial District
Vote on 1994 and 1996 Measures A and S, by City
Population by city in Orange County
Measure B on the November 2002 Ballot

BE INVOLVED SECTION

Links to E-Mail Letters to Newspaper Editors
Using the Freedom of Information Act

ISSUES AND INFO SECTION - Click here for the complete contents of this section.

EL TORO AIRPORT PLANS - The County's changing plans.
Two O.C. Airports Won't Fly
The Grounding of El Toro - A history of the airport fight
What the El Toro Fight Cost

NON-AVIATION REUSES - GREAT PARK PLANS
Heritage Fields website
Irvine's park timeline
Evolution of the non-aviation plans with park maps 

Great Park Corp budget 2005-6
CSUF Campus at El Toro
Maglev website
Recycling the runways
Navy Record of Decision

GSA auction bid history

NOISE
Putting 65 CNEL in perspective
How loud is the noise?
Airport Noise and Capacity Act of 1990
Air Transport Association position on flight restrictions
Data on noise for various aircraft
Noise impacts and sleep deprivation
Effects of aircraft noise on children's health
Chronic noise and psychological stress in children
Kids near airports don't read as well
Students' work suffers when planes fly overhead
Airplane Noise has Lifelong Effects- Cornell's study
Aircraft noise and blood pressure
Entire Kentucky Town Relocated in Unique Airport Noise Buyout

AIRPORT SAFETY AND FLIGHT PATHS
Air Line Pilots Association position on El Toro - All ALPA letters
ALPA comments on Option C- North and East Takeoffs.
Allied Pilots Association (APA) comments on EIR 573
Allied Pilots Association Opposes Runway 7
Air Traffic Controllers Association objects to Two Airport Plan
Is El Toro Unsafe?
Crash in Leisure World
North Takeoffs Over Loma Ridge - Photos
Engine failures
County's EIR Flight Path Maps
Federal Aviation Administration memo about JWA and El Toro
Pilots and Not Politicians Pick the Takeoff Direction
West takeoffs Over Irvine
V Runway proposal
The Pilots' Plan (McGowan Plan)
Irvine Company letter re: Alternate Flight Paths
FAA Documents Obtained by FOIA
Mitre Airspace Report
FAA Airspace Report - August 2001
 

POLLUTION
Air Pollution Summary
Airports: Deadly Neighbors
Children and Pollution
National Resource Defense Council - "Flying Off Course"
Airport Health Risks - OC Study
O'Hare Airport Report on Cancer Risks
Boston Area Study of Health Risks

PROPERTY VALUES
The Impacts of An Airport on Property Values.
The Bell Study of Impacts at LAX, JWA and Ontario.
2002 Study of Property Tax Loss
Avigation Easements - now rescinded by the Board of Supervisors

AVIATION DEMAND
Who Will Use the OC Airports -  projections from EIR 573
Who actually flew from each SoCal county and at each airport in 2003
Who Uses LAX?

Who Uses Ontario?
Who Uses John Wayne Airport?
LAX Demand Study
SCAG and San Diego population projections and map of growth areas.
SCAG Aviation Forecasts for 2030
Previous SCAG aviation forecasts

John Wayne, El Toro or Both?

Regional Demand Estimates

ECONOMICS AND LOGISTICS
Where's the Jet Fuel?
Sell the El Toro Land -Rep. Christopher Cox
Two-airport System. If We Build it Will They Come?
International El Toro routes might not fly - OC Register

UTILIZING JOHN WAYNE AIRPORT
John Wayne Airport History, Settlement Agreement, Operations and Its Future.
John Wayne Land Deed from Irvine Company
Newport Beach Resolution on Extending JWA Caps and NPB Aviation Policy
JWA runways can be extended.
John Wayne Airport passenger utilization data
John Wayne Airport Use Trend
John Wayne Planes
John Wayne User Survey
EIR 582 and JWA capacity
John Wayne and San Diego's Lindbergh Field compared
John Wayne, El Toro or Both - UCI Public Opinion Polls

AREA AIRPORTS
Locations of Area Airports
"Regional airport solution "
Southern California Counties Land Areas
Airport Site Consensus Study -1990
Long Beach Airport
March Inland Port advantages
Cargo Use of March AFB, Riverside - Report From SCAG
George AFB, Victorville - Southern California Logistics Airport
What About Palmdale?
San Bernadino International Airport - Norton
SCAG Draft Regional Transportation Plan - Airports
San Diego looks at airport sites
What About Camp Pendleton?
Airports Without Runways - SCRAA Presentation
Bay Area Airports - No "Fair Share" distribution

POLITICS AND PUBLIC REACTION
Click for more than 30 public opinion polls on El Toro since 1997
Assembly Bill AB37 and the LRA
AB2333 - Nakano "fair share" bill
Measure A - Full Text
Measure S - County-Counsel's Summary
1990 Airport Noise and Capacity Act - Full Text
California Code of Regulations for Airport Noise Standards
A Tale of Two Bases - Tustin vs. El Toro
Irvine's Annexation Bid
George Argyros
County Growth, North and South
Orange County Regional Airport Authority - OCRAA
Southern California Regional Airport Authority SCRAA
Assembly bill 1197 - Regional Airport Authority


LOCAL GROUPS OPPOSED TO EL TORO AIRPORT

El Toro Coalition
El Toro Reuse Planning Authority (ETRPA) letters and resolutions.
    The Millennium Plan for non-aviation reuse - 1998
Committee for Safe and Healthy Communities
Great Park Conservancy Form 990

LINKS TO OTHER WEBSITES

EL TORO AIRPORT WEBSITE

Search the El Toro Website
County's Public Relations firm evaluates El Toro website
"Internet for Activists"- book information
About us - The website's mission statement