RE: SFO expansion meetings

From: Jeff Milum (jmilum@saba.com-DeleteThis)
Date: Fri Jun 18 1999 - 11:43:56 PDT

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From: Jeff Milum <jmilum@saba.com-DeleteThis>
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Subject: RE: SFO expansion meetings 
Date: Fri, 18 Jun 1999 11:43:56 -0700
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Excellent points.

SFO had voiced that they did not need more runways, now they are coming
back.

I didn't know that there was already a recommendation NOT to expand SF.
There are a lot of reasons for this inclding the weather, and the growing
areas of the Bay Area have been in the South Bay and the EAst Bay.
Obviously it makes since to expand there, since San Francisco, North
Penninsula don't have enough empty land for significant population
increases.

Using these arguments, rallying a large base of "recreational users", and if
the general population expresses concern, there may be a chance of stopping
this thing.

-----Original Message-----
From: Gordon Olesek [mailto:Gordon.Olesek@PinpointSolutions.com-DeleteThis]
Sent: Friday, June 18, 1999 10:48 AM
To: Multiple recipients of list
Subject: SFO expansion meetings

Since the SFO planning is in such an early stage, we should assume that all
plans are still on the table.
The high speed rail line, planned for SAC/SFO/SFO Airport/LA is being
discuss concurrently, it might be possible to push for NO expansion for SFO.
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/chronicle/archive/1999/06/17
/MN39060.DTL

This might be a good approach for the first round. We could base our
arguments that this is just a power grab by SF City, so they can continue to
be perceived as the CENTER of the bay area (to feed Mayor Brown's ego).
Also, the Federal recommendations for bay area airport expansion (they
advocate expanding Oakland and San Jose to support regional traffic, rather
than having EVERYONE hike to SFO) lean away from any SFO expansion beyond
those that are currently underway. Again, when SFO asked for the Federal
money for the current expansion (new terminal,etc.), they rated their runway
space as currently adequate and did not mention any need for expansion of
the runways.

Also, since SFO is the most unreliable airport in the bay area for handling
consistent traffic loads, because of wind and low visibility, it also makes
sense to expand the other two bay area airports so they could handle the
increased passenger load, allowing Gilroy and Rio Vista passengers to use
their respective airports, rather than making the LONGER drive to SFO.

Everyone agrees that the impact of run way expansion is going to be
catastrophic for the bay and our sailing spots. I do not know if I want to
be in the water for the YEARS that they would be dredging and building for
expansion, as all the toxins that have built up in the bays sediment over
the past 40 + years of bay area industrialization are dredged up and
released.

With the expansion of the other two airports, along with a long term
commitment to a clean, high-speed rail line, the future transport load for
California (30 % of daily traffic at SFO is Intra-California, i.e. LA, SAC,
SD day trips for business) could be handled with different transpiration
options, making the SFO runway expansion a tertiary option at best.

BTW: Is this mostly a BCDC decision ?
I might be able to get a meeting with the group, or some of its members off
line, if we think this might help.

Best Regards,

Gordon.

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