Judge rules for airport project
A judge has potentially cleared the way for the expansion of Long Beach Airport.
Superior Court Judge Thierry Patrick Colaw said in a ruling Friday that the city did not violate state law when it approved an environmental report for the expansion. The report says the expansion won’t affect noise or air quality.
The Long Beach Unified School District, which filed the lawsuit in 2006, argued that dozens of schools would be affected by noise and demanded the city pay for soundproofing those campuses.
The city plans to expand the terminal and build a parking garage. The number of passengers using the airport annually is expected to increase from 1.2 million to 4.2 million in coming years.
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