COMMITTEE SEEKS TO GUIDE AIRPORT; BURBANK GROUP BEGINS BALLOT MEASURE PROCESS.Byline: Donna Huffaker
A citizens committee that wants 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. residents to decide the fate of airport expansion plans filed organizational papers with the Burbank City Clerk In the United States, a City Clerk is an elected or appointed official who is responsible as the official keeper of the municipal records. In some places, the Clerk may be known as the "Village Clerk" or "Town Clerk". on Monday Monday: see week. , the first step in securing a ballot initiative. With the papers filed, Ted McConkey Several people share the surname McConkey
The petitions need to be signed by 10 percent of Burbank's 52,000 registered voters to qualify for the ballot. Formal organization of the committee comes on the heels of a settlement framework for airport expansion that the city of Burbank and the Burbank-Glendale-Pasadena Airport Authority reached Aug. 4. It's it's 1. Contraction of it is. 2. Contraction of it has. See Usage Note at its. it's it is or it has it's be ~have an agreement McConkey called an expensive ``travesty.'' After years of costly battles between Burbank and the airport authority, the two entities reached a compromise that allows the airport to build a new terminal with 14 gates - the same number as the existing terminal, but the new facility will measure 330,000 square feet, nearly twice the size as the existing one. The airport has agreed to close terminal concessions and services from 11 p.m. to 6 a.m., phase out all noisier Stage 2 jets within five years and strictly enforce existing noise rules. The agreement, which the City Council must approve, further requires airport officials to secure a federally approved curfew curfew [O.Fr.,=cover fire], originally a signal, such as the ringing of a bell, to damp the fire, extinguish all lights in the dwelling, and retire for the night. The custom originated as a precaution against fires and was common throughout Europe in the Middle Ages. on flights from 10 p.m. to 7 a.m. before they can expand the commercial airline terminal from 14 gates to 16 gates. Before it can be expanded to 19 gates, the airport and the city must agree to a cap on the number of passengers. While Burbank City Manager Robert Robert, Henry Martyn 1837-1923. American army engineer and parliamentary authority. He designed the defenses for Washington, D.C., during the Civil War and later wrote Robert's Rules of Order (1876). Noun 1. ``Bud'' Ovrom calls the plan ``a moderate compromise,'' McConkey sees it as a sell-out Sell-Out When a broker or investor buying stocks has failed to settle the trade in a timely manner and, as a result, the broker can forcibly sell the securities on the investor's behalf. . ``They bargained from a position of weakness rather than strength,'' McConkey said, adding ``airport expansion is a question that Burbank residents should decide.'' The ballot initiative would call for no expansion of the current Burbank Airport terminal on the planned site owned by Lockheed, no more than 14 gates, a mandatory curfew between 10 p.m. and 6 a.m. and a cap on any increase in future flight operations. The committee will have six months to gather the approximately 5,200 required signatures and, assuming the initiative qualifies, the City Council can either enact the measure or call an election where voters decide its fate. Ovrom welcomes a ballot initiative and said he's not afraid of an election - it's the democratic process. The majority of Burbank residents, he said, support a moderate resolution to the dispute. From 10 percent to 20 percent of residents want the airport closed all together, he said, and the same percentage favors expanding into an unlimited international terminal, he said. ``We always aimed for the 60-80 percent of the people who want a safe, convenient regional airport. The framework compromise is a moderate solution. We knew neither extreme was going to like it,'' he said. |
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