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RESOLUTION NUMBER ~$f~~
A RESOLUTION OF THE SEAL BEACH CITY
COUNCIL OPPOSING ALL JOINT USE OF
GENERAL AVIATION AND/OR CIVILIAN
AIRCRAFT AT LOS ALAMITOS AIR STATION.
the citizens of Seal Beach have long supported only military
aviation use at the Los Alamitos Air Station; and
this local opposition to any civilian use, jet or general aviation,
is well documented over the past ten years in numerous polls,
studies, public hearings, Congressional mail and with the Orange
County Board of Supervisors; and
the Defense Department in 1977 and 1978 has repeatedly confirmed
the incompatibility of ANY joint civilian use of the Los Alamitos
Air Station; and ----
the City of Huntington Beach is in the process of rezoning the
existing Meadowlark Airport for a mobile home park; and
the existing 250 tie downs at Meadowlark will have to be relocated;
and
the closing of Meadowlark will put additional pressure toward
potential general aviation and/or civilian aircraft uses at Los
Alamitos Airport; and
the fatality rate for general aviation has been over one hundred
times greater than the commercial aviation rate in recent years;
and
the physical accident rate for private aircraft is over one thousand
times greater than the commercial aircraft rate in past years; and
the Seal Beach Naval Weapons Station handles the armament used in
our defense; and
the proximity of general aviation aircraft take-offs, landings
and flight patterns with such weapons clearly increases the danger
of catastrophe for all parties; and
the City of Seal Beach as well as the County of Orange are
responsible for the lives, safety and well being of the 28,000
residents of Seal Beach.
NOW, THEREFORE BE IT RESOLVED that the City Council of the City of Seal Beach
does hereby oppose all joint use of general aviation and/or civilian aircraft
at Los Alamitos Airport.
PASSED, APPROVED AND ADOPTED by the City Council of the City of Seal Beach,
California, at a meeting thereof held on the 23rd day of June 1980, by the
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