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Recommendation to approve Long Beach Airport Minimum Standards for Aeronautical Activities. (District 5)
DISCUSSION
Section 16.44.130 of the City's Municipal Code requires the Airport Director to establish reasonable administrative regulations relating to all aeronautical activities at the Airport, which historically has been accomplished in large part by City Council-approved Minimum Standards for Aeronautical Activities (Minimum Standards). In December 2006, Long Beach Airport (LGB) tenants were notified of the process underway to update the Airport's Minimum Standards. During the past months, Airport staff, an Airport Advisory Commission subcommittee and consultants have been reviewing current Minimum Standards, those at similar airports, industry guidelines and localized LGB marketplace variables, in order to identify necessary updates to the Minimum Standards. The Minimum Standards were last updated in 1998.
Based on this review, and subsequent meetings with Airport tenants and other Airport users, the attached Long Beach Airport Minimum Standards for Aeronautical Activities document was prepared. Based on national standards and Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) guidance, when Minimum Standards are adopted/modified, all entities currently conducting business at the Airport must meet the new Minimum Standards, with the exception of those standards that would involve a significant capital investment in upgrading facilities and/or a significant increase in the size of the leasehold area. Existing otherwise compliant operators would be required to meet these major capital and leasehold size-related parameters should, in the future, a significant lease re-opener (e.g., a request for a significant lease term extension) occur.
In addition, the Minimum Standards would apply to anyone wishing to begin providing the service after adoption of the new/updated Minimum Standards.
At the July 2007 and September 2007 Airport Advisory Commission (AAC) meeting...
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