Oxnard Airport Expansion
* On Jan. 6, I attended a meeting of the county Environmental Report Review Committee, which was considering a draft of the Oxnard Airport’s master plan environmental impact report outlining projects that could take place over the next 20 years.
The notice of the meeting was inadequate because it did not include the proposed replacement of the existing airport master plan (1987) with a new draft airport master plan update.
The EIR inadequately addressed the impacts of the draft airport master plan by tangling up the language about what they were doing and concluded that there would not be any impact! The California Environmental Quality Act requires a project to be evaluated as to its maximum capacity, and this was not done.
We in Oxnard do not want to accommodate expected growth in airport use in Southern California. We decided long ago with the city of Camarillo and the Board of Supervisors that we do not want the use of the airport intensified. We do not want the county to buy more land for expanding or protecting the airport. We do not want more noisy business jets coming to Oxnard. We do not want the county to make Oxnard a wasteland like Van Nuys and many other airport cities. We want to be listened to by the county.
JANE TOLMACH
Oxnard
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