Subject: EL TORO/JOHN WAYNE E-MAIL POLL
Date: Tues, 19 Dec 2000
From: Leonard Kranser
To: list@eltoroairport
Important One Question El Toro Website E-mail Poll
See e-mail response instructions below.
BACKGROUND:
The Newport Beach City Council recently asked the Board of Supervisors, "To support the preparation of an environmental document by the City of Newport Beach that evaluates the impacts of an amendment of the John Wayne Airport Settlement Agreement to extend the term [until 2025] with no change to the current legally permissible and authorized level of operations.”
John Wayne airport has an estimated physical capacity of about 14 million annual passengers. The number of passengers actually served is capped until 2005, by the “John Wayne Airport Settlement Agreement”, at no more than 8.4 million annual passengers – which is “the current legally permissible and authorized level of operations”.
On December 5, the Supervisors approved this request. The OC Register reported that, "The Orange County Board of Supervisors took the first step … toward extending flight restrictions at John Wayne Airport to 2025. The board unanimously agreed to work with the city to study extending a curfew on night flights and caps on the number of passengers and cargo flights now in place."
ARGUMENTS:
The main arguments for the Board’s YES vote are:
* The Board was agreeing to a study and not to any final decision on the
JWA caps.
* We do not want more passengers and airplanes at John Wayne, harming Orange
County quality of life.
* Night flight curfews are humane and should be continued at John Wayne airport.
The present curfew arrangement and other restrictions expire in 2005.
The main arguments for a NO vote are:
* The County may need additional airport capacity to handle future growth
and John Wayne is underutilized.
* Support for Newport Beach and for "NO John Wayne expansion" should be tied
to support by Newport Beach for "NO El Toro". The Settlement Agreement,
which Newport Beach seeks to extend, contains language calling for a second
county airport.
* Newport Beach sued to overturn Measure F, which would protect all airport
O.C. communities.
QUESTION:
SHOULD THE BOARD OF SUPERVISORS HELP NEWPORT BEACH TO EXTEND THE RESTRICTIONS ON JOHN WAYNE AIRPORT UNTIL 2025 AT THE CURRENT AUTHORIZED LEVEL OF OPERATIONS?
To vote “YES”, return this e-mail with the word YES, AND THE NAME OF YOUR CITY, typed in the SUBJECT: line. (E.g.: Yes Mission Viejo)
To vote “NO”, return this e-mail with the word NO, AND THE NAME OF YOUR CITY, typed in the SUBJECT: line. (E.g. No Laguna Niguel)
Only the SUBJECT: line will be scanned. Replace the Subject of this message with your vote. Please do not send other responses to this message. They will not be tallied or answered. We will only record the Yes or No vote by city.
Results will be published on the El Toro Airport website
Follow the El Toro reuse debate at http://www.eltoroairport.org
For more information on John Wayne Airport, see http://www.eltoroairport.org/issues.html#jwa
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Subject: JOHN WAYNE POLL
Date: Thu, 21 Dec 2000
From: Leonard Kranser
To: Yes@eltoroairport.org
Thanks for responding to our El Toro/John Wayne e-mail poll. The
number of replies has been terrific and the results will be published on the
El Toro Airport website after they are tabulated.
http://www.eltoroairport.org
Your answered “YES” to the first poll question, which asked:
“SHOULD THE BOARD OF SUPERVISORS HELP NEWPORT BEACH TO EXTEND THE RESTRICTIONS ON JOHN WAYNE AIRPORT UNTIL 2025 AT THE CURRENT AUTHORIZED LEVEL OF OPERATIONS?”
Some respondents were unhappy with, or unclear about the term “CURRENT LEVEL OF OPERATIONS” - which was used in the resolution by the Newport Beach City Council and by the Board of Supervisors.
Therefore, we have a follow-up question to learn more about how residents
feel on this issue. We want to know whether you voted “Yes” on the above
question because you support efforts at:
* Maintaining the current level of PASSENGER SERVICE – e.g. carrying the
same number of passengers at John Wayne, or
* Maintaining the current HOURS OF OPERATION – e.g. keeping the same night
curfews at John Wayne, or
* BOTH.
Follow-up question:
DO YOU AGREE TO HAVING THE BOARD OF SUPERVISORS HELP NEWPORT BEACH TO MAINTAIN THE CURRENT NIGHT TIME CURFEWS ON JOHN WAYNE AIRPORT UNTIL 2025, WHILE ALLOWING AN INCREASE IN THE AUTHORIZED NUMBER OF PASSENGERS SERVED?
If you agree, and want to keep the curfews but relax restrictions of the number of passengers, return this e-mail with the word AGREE, inserted in the SUBJECT: block. (E.g. SUBJECT: AGREE)
If you disagree and want to keep BOTH the curfews and the caps on the number of passengers, return this e-mail with the word DISAGREE, typed into the SUBJECT: block. (E.g. SUBJECT: DISAGREE)
Only the SUBJECT: will be scanned. Replace the Subject of this message with your vote. Please do not send other responses to this message. They will not be tallied or answered. You can not change your original vote. We will only record the Agree and Disagree votes.
Results will be published on the El Toro Airport website
Follow the El Toro reuse debate at http://www.eltoroairport.org
For more information on John Wayne Airport, see http://www.eltoroairport.org/issues.html#jwa