The Los Angeles County Airport Land Use Commission (ALUC) today, on a split vote, deemed “consistent” a very limited package of City Plan Amendments submitted by Los Angeles World Airports (LAWA). The amendments relate to LAWA’s future efforts to modernize Los Angeles International Airport (LAX). The Commission was comparing the plan amendments with the adopted Airport Land Use Plan. Los Angeles County Supervisor Don Knabe issued the following statement:
“The vote before the Commission was not an endorsement of the LAX Modernization Plan, but a limited, piecemeal review of an incomplete application. Our residents and businesses are not being given a clear picture from LAWA on its priorities for LAX and the region. In 2006, we were promised regionalization of air service and traffic relief through a direct transit connection. However, instead of seeing concrete results, we are getting more piecemealed, bureaucratic plans.”
“The Commission should have been given a complete plan to review, including the report on airport regionalization that Supervisor Mark Ridley-Thomas and I requested on February 26, 2013. My concern is that LAWA is being intentionally misleading because they have been ignoring regionalization and the City of Ontario’s request to assume control of its airport. Enough of the limited and confusing information; I want to see the air cleared and promises kept.”