AIRPORT TO MOVE PARKING LOTS BURBANK AUTHORITY EYES BUYING NEIGHBORING PROPERTY.Byline: Orith Goldberg Staff Writer BURBANK Burbank, city (1990 pop. 93,643), Los Angeles co., S Calif.; inc. 1911. Tourism and the entertainment industry are central to its economy; several motion-picture studios and television headquarters are here. Burbank's aerospace industry collapsed with the end of the Cold War. - Hoping to increase safety and prevent incidents like a Southwest Airlines This article is about the American airline. For the former Japanese airline, see Japan Transocean Air. For the British airline, see Air Southwest. Southwest Airlines Co. plane skidding off a runway runway: see airport. at Burbank Airport earlier this year, the Burbank-Glendale-Pasadena Airport Authority voted unanimously Monday to relocate re·lo·cate v. re·lo·cat·ed, re·lo·cat·ing, re·lo·cates v.tr. To move to or establish in a new place: relocated the business. v.intr. two parking lots farther from the runways and purchase property near the airport to clear away obstacles. The two parcels of property the authority is seeking to buy on Hollywood Way sit directly opposite the runway and include the gas station where the Southwest Airlines plane came to rest, a restaurant and a dry cleaner, said Victor J. Gill gill, in weights and measures gill, in weights and measures: see English units of measurement. , spokesman for the Airport Authority. The authority has been taking a closer look at options to improve safety at the east end of the airport since the Southwest Airlines Boeing 737 with 142 people aboard skidded off a rain-slick runway at Burbank Airport on March 25 and smashed through a fence across Hollywood Way before hitting a car and coming to a stop at the gas station. ``Had the plane veered to the left it would have been pointing straight at the airport parking lot,'' Gill said. The authority voted to submit applications to the city of Burbank seeking permission to acquire five acres of property and change the use of existing airport-owned property so parking lots A and B can be relocated re·lo·cate v. re·lo·cat·ed, re·lo·cat·ing, re·lo·cates v.tr. To move to or establish in a new place: relocated the business. v.intr. to more distant locations from the runway. The Airport Authority is also seeking to install a special block less dense than concrete to prevent aircraft from running onto Hollywood Way. The authority convened in a special session Monday to interview firms responding to requests to perform environmental impact reports for a proposed new terminal building farther from the runway. The current terminal is 313 feet away from the center lines of the runway. The Federal Aviation Administration Federal Aviation Administration (FAA), component of the U.S. Department of Transportation that sets standards for the air-worthiness of all civilian aircraft, inspects and licenses them, and regulates civilian and military air traffic through its air traffic control allows a minimum of 750 feet, Gill said. The Airport Authority voted Monday to apply to the Federal Aviation Administration for a $25 million federal grant to pay for the airport improvements on an 80 percent federal and 20 percent local match basis. |
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