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 Stage 4 Aircraft Update

Neighbors,

The mayor has called a special election in order to dismantle the
 Airport Traffic Relief Act.

It is essential that you get the word out to your neighbors that it is crucial for
EVERYONE to vote on March 4.

This may well be the last time that San Jose residents have any say about the
planning process and growth of San Jose International Airport.

If Measure A passes, Airport has a green light to expand now. Previously
promised traffic improvements will be delayed another year and there will be
no rail link to the airport in our lifetime.

All this measure really does, is grow the airport and add gates. It delays
traffic improvements by another year and it says that they must only IDENTIFY
funding for a rail link - it does NOT say that they need to build it!

Don't be fooled by airport arguments that they need this measure for safety.
They  didn't include the law in your sample ballot because they didn't want you to read it. The AIRPORT TRAFFIC RELIEF ACT, specifically allowed safety
improvements as you can see in 25.04.420.

They're counting on low voter turnout. They're counting on scaring people
about the safety issue. They're counting on winning this one and if they do,
all the neighborhoods will lose.

The truth is, the our airport is already meeting FAA guidelines and TSA has
been screening all baggage since late December, 2002. We don't need a
new law for safety.

Citizens Against Airport Pollution and Airport Traffic Relief Alliance are
joining together to keep our Airport Traffic Relief Act intact. If you care
about transit, traffic, and airport growth and want to help, you can contact us
at http://www.caap.org

Mark your calendars for February 18, Bellarmine High School, 7:00 pm - 9:00 pm for a NO on A Workshop. Details will follow shortly.

Wording on the Sample Ballot for the March 4 Election:

AIRPORT SECURITY AND TRAFFIC RELIEF ACT

To improve airport security, convenience, relieve traffic, and reduce
construction costs, shall the City be authorized to add space for Federally
required security measures, improved passenger facilities, and nine new gates, once Highway 87, a full interchange at Coleman Avenue and Highway 880, the airport street system are within three years of completion, and City Council identifies funding to connect Airport with BART or light rail, without raising taxes?

STEERING COMMITTEE:

  Dr. Kenneth Hayes, M.D.
  Co-Chair
  Physician

  Dr. Walter Bowman, M.D.
  Co-Chair
  Physician

  Robert Harmssen, 
  Co-Vice Chair
  Attorney at Law

  Lenora Porcella, 
  Co-Vice Chair
  Travel Agent

  Lilian Dennis,
  Secretary
  Small Business Owner

  Sharen Dains,
  Treasurer
  Freelance Court Reporter

  Lyle Johnson,
  Santa Clara Advisor
  Attorney at Law
 

TASKFORCE:

  Lenora Porcella,
  Newsletter Editor
  Travel Agent

   Sandy Bauer,
  Webmistress 

Airport Noise Report Line - (408) 452-0707

The city of San Jose has a new Info line that is a 24/7 fax. The number is 408-277-8500 with four digit codes for the following:

• 1103 - Airport Acoustical Treatment Program
• 1106 - Airport Noise Monitoring Center
• 1109 - General Information

South Bay residents are encouraged to report intrusive aircraft overflight noise on San Francisco Airport's toll free citizen complaint number. Callers with a complaint should state the time, date, duration.

The toll free number is 1 (877) 206-8290

Do you Smell Noxious Aircraft Fumes?

Do the Fumes make you close your windows or run into your House?

Do you keep your kids from playing outside or stop working in your Yard  when the fumes are thick?  Are you or your children having any problems with Asthma?

Has Bay Area Air Quality Management (1-800-334-6367) told you that they have no "jurisdiction" over Air Craft Fumes? Have you been told by the Airport staff that these fumes are not Airport related; or that the Airport never receives any fume complaints?

We now have a  "Fumes" Complaint Line!

As a result of resident concerns, Jerry Hetnar, Environmental Department, of the San Jose Airport is logging dates, times, and addresses of people who are smelling Aircraft fumes.  His phone number is 408-501-7706.  You can even leave a message after working hours with your fumes complaint
date and time.

Don't hesitate to call and log your fume concern!  It is only by speaking up and raising our voices that we will get heard!  Many people calling will lead to some kind of investigation of those pungent fumes and perhaps something to monitor our most precious resource --- OUR AIR!!

Live Radar Flight Tracks allows you to watch the movement of flights and air traffic patterns currently in use within the Bay Area. This map will show flight tracks of aircraft arriving and departing from SFO, Oakland, and San Jose Airport and other nearby general aviation airports. Red plane icons are arrivals, green are departures, black are General Aviation or small propeller aircraft and helicopters. The white icons are aircraft   transiting the area and bypassing local airports. The icon sizes are uniform regardless of the actual size of the aircraft. 

Mapshowing the cummulative effect of 17 of Santa Clara County's leading 'High Tech' Hazardous Air Pollutants identified by SVTC that are contained in the CEP database and have an EPA Benchmark for cancer. The risk for cancer is much higher than the Clean Air Act goal of 1 in 1 million individualsanywhere in Santa Clara County. The cancer risk ranges from 18 to 876 additional cancer cases - a high of over 800 additional cancer cases per million individuals - resulting from exposure to the subset of High Tech chemicals that SVTC has identified.