From the minutes of the Airport Land Use Commission meeting of October 16, 2003

City of Irvine General Plan Amendment and Zone Change, Lower Peters Canyon.

Commissioner O'Malley voiced his opposition to an action that would include a notice of airport in vicinity in light of the Navy's letters saying there is not going to be an airport, and Measure W, etc.

The Chairman opined that the proposed notice sounds realistic to him in view of the latest uncertain status of the air base property, and a discussion ensued about the ALUC's position and about OCRAA's views on the likelihood of a future El Toro airport.

Commissioner [Patty] Campbell explained, as her city's OCRAA member, that the focus is on finding ways to get people to other airports than LAX. She noted the project to widen the 1-22 and 1-405 freeways, which would eliminate 45 homes in Seal Beach if the north side of the 1-405 is used. She expressed her displeasure recalling that the El Toro airport would not have cost even one house, nor caused flights over one house under the "V Plan." She repeated that the group's looking at El Toro was intended to provide an airport for south county residents and keep their traffic out of the north county cities such as Seal Beach, emphasizing that the intent was to solve the south county's airport needs without further burdening the north county cities.

Commissioner O'Malley reiterated that the El Toro airport is a dead issue, which even the OCRAA Chairman has acknowledged, adding that the ALUC is wasting time and money dealing with the matter.