Last Updated: 2 Dec 2004

Welcome to CAAP (Citizens Against Airport Pollution)

A League of Neighborhoods
P.O. Box 26142, San Jose, CA 95159
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To learn more about CAAP, its directors and meeting schedules, please e-mail Janet Gray Hayes at: janetgrayhayes@sbcglobal.net.

Breaking News! - Update - December 1, 2004

At the November 16th San Jose City Council meeting, the matter of increasing airport terminal footage to 1,700.000 square feet was postponed for three weeks. This proposed amendment, increasing terminal size by 60% (considered to be a minor amendment by city staff) has now been postponed again and won't be heard until mid to late January, 2005. (see agenda item below) In the interval, CAAP had requested a meeting and expects to confer with selected council members and airport staff regarding questions surrounding this issue. The questions include:

  1. Why this 60% increase is not considered a major amendment?
  2. How much increased footage is considered necessary for security devices and what are those devices?
  3. What are the estimated added costs to the expansion?
  4. Why is this expanded footprint necessary when everyone was assured that expanding the terminal footprint from 775,000 to 1,050,000 square feet would be enough to house security devices and to create a spacious airport?
  5. Why doesn’t the city consider this piecemeal project which is prohibited by California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA)?
  6. What will the City do to insure that this additional expansion will not be capacity enhancing?

CAAP feels that a decision on this important issue, which is surely a major change to our existing Airport Master Plan and a piecemeal approach to our existing Master Plan Environmental Impact Report, is inappropriate at this time. More time should be allowed for extensive review, discussion, presentation and public comment. The Council needs time to explore possible negative environmental impacts, added costs and to evaluate the effects of this proposed amendment if litigation should be provoked.

Continue to monitor this page for updates and a new date for the City Council meeting will be posted early in the New Year.

Happy Holidays!


8 AVIATION SERVICES

8.1 Approval of various actions for the Airport Master Plan.

(d) Adoption of a resolution approving a Minor Amendment to the Airport Master Plan for the Norman Y. Mineta San José International Airport to increase the estimated size of terminal building space needed to adequately accommodate projected passenger demand from a total of 1,075,000 square feet to 1,700,000 square feet of enclosed building space. CEQA: Resolution Nos. 67380 and 71451, PP04-305. (Airport)


Take  the North Concourse Concessions Survey here:

http://survey.sanjoseca.gov/airport/ncc_survey.htm


MINETA SAN JOSE INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT
ARTS COMMISSION

Contact: If you have questions about this project or the Public Art Program please contact Mary Rubin at  (408) 277-2808


STEERING COMMITTEE:

Dr. Kenneth Hayes, M.D.
  Chairperson
  Physician

Robert Harmssen, 
  Vice Chairperson
  Attorney at Law

Lenora Porcella, 
  Vice Chairperson
  Travel Agent

 Lilian Dennis,
  Secretary
  Small Business Owner

Jim Lynch,
 Treasurer

Ed Blackmond
Technical Advisor

Mark Wheeler
Environmental
Advisor

Janet Gray Hayes
 Political  Advisor
 

TASKFORCE:

Sandy Bauer,
  Webmistress

Ed Hodges
Historian
The San Jose Airport has released an Internet flight tracking system called AirportMonitor on their web site:

Airport Noise Report Line - (408) 452-0707

(24 hour reporting of loud aircraft, curfew penetrations, engine run-ups in the middle of the night)
San Jose Airport Noise Center

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.

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