Long Beach, CA
File #: 06-0225    Version: 1 Name: URANGA/GABELICH - Late Night Flight Penalties at LB Airport
Type: Agenda Item Status: Approved
File created: 3/9/2006 In control: City Council
On agenda: 3/14/2006 Final action: 3/14/2007
Title: Recommendation to request City Attorney to draft an amendment to the Airport Noise Compatibility Ordinance to impose a new progressive penalty structure for any noise violation that occurs between 10:00 p.m. and 7:00 a.m.; Request City Attorney to draft written guidelines precisely defining an “unanticipated delay” during the “bridge period” between 10:00 p.m. and 11:00 p.m. These guidelines should specify that only a delay by weather or by Air Traffic Control at the final point of departure in route to Long Beach would constitute an unanticipated delay; and Request City Manager to work with the City Attorney’s office to revise the City’s standard lease provisions with all existing and future aircraft operators, including air carriers, to clearly state that a willful failure to abide by the City’s Airport Noise Compatibility Ordinance could constitute a material breach of the operator’s lease with the City, and could result in a suspension or termination of Airport privileges.
Sponsors: COUNCILMEMBER TONIA REYES URANGA, SEVENTH DISTRICT, COUNCILWOMAN RAE GABELICH, EIGHTH DISTRICT
Attachments: 1. R-26sr, 2. R-26att
Related files: 05-3358, 15-0141, 15-1272
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Recommendation to request City Attorney to draft an amendment to the Airport Noise Compatibility Ordinance to impose a new progressive penalty structure for any noise violation that occurs between 10:00 p.m. and 7:00 a.m.;
 
Request City Attorney to draft written guidelines precisely defining an "unanticipated delay" during the "bridge period" between 10:00 p.m. and 11:00 p.m.  These guidelines should specify that only a delay by weather or by Air Traffic Control at the final point of departure in route to Long Beach would constitute an unanticipated delay; and
 
Request City Manager to work with the City Attorney's office to revise the City's standard lease provisions with all existing and future aircraft operators, including air carriers, to clearly state that a willful failure to abide by the City's Airport Noise Compatibility Ordinance could constitute a material breach of the operator's lease with the City, and could result in a suspension or termination of Airport privileges.
 
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Approve recommendation.
 
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Respectfully Submitted,
 
 
 
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GERALD R. MILLER
 
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