COUNCILMAN WANTS BURBANK AIRPORT PROPOSAL ON BALLOT.Byline: Dominic Dominic hound who travels widely. [Children’s Lit.: Dominic] See : Dogs Berbeo Staff Writer City Councilman Bob Kramer said Tuesday that he wants voters to have a say in whether Burbank Airport should be expanded and will ask the council next week to schedule a special citywide vote. ``This is too important a decision for just five council members to make,'' Kramer said. ``We need to have the involvement of all the people.'' His motion would give voters the opportunity to go to the polls in 90 days to advise the council to approve or reject a framework for airport expansion reached Aug. 4 between Burbank and the Burbank-Glendale-Pasadena Airport Authority. The framework would settle nearly four years of legal battles between the city and the airport over expansion-related noise and other issues. The council hasn't exercised its authority to put an advisory vote on the ballot since 1997, when it asked for input on how to regulate leaf blowers A leaf blower is gardening tool that propels air out of a nozzle to move yard debris such as leaves. Leaf blowers are usually powered by two-stroke engine or an electric motor, but four-stroke engines were recently introduced to partially address air pollution concerns. . A panel of representatives from Burbank, Glendale and Pasadena runs the airport. Among the three cities The Three Cities is a collective description of the three fortified cities of Cospicua, Vittoriosa, and Senglea on the Island of Malta, which are enclosed by the massive line of fortification created by the Knights of St John, the Cottonera Lines. , Burbank has spearheaded efforts to minimize the impact of expansion. At the center of the debate is the noise that opponents fear would be generated by an expanded airport with additional flights. An organization made up of Burbank residents filed organizational papers with the City Clerk's Office on Monday and announced it will fight the expansion plan. Restore Our Airport Rights hopes to gather enough signatures to put a motion on a citywide ballot to downsize Downsize Reducing the size of a company by eliminating workers and/or divisions within the company. Notes: When a company downsizes, it is attempting to find ways to improve efficiency and increase profitability. It is sometimes referred to as trimming the fat. the expansion plans. ROAR has six months to submit petitions with the signatures of at least 10 percent of Burbank's 52,000 registered voters to qualify a measure for a citywide vote. Former Burbank Councilman Ted McConkey, a member of the group, said the initiative would oppose expanding the Burbank Airport terminal on the planned site owned by Lockheed, and call for no more than 14 gates, a mandatory 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. between 10 p.m. and 6 a.m. and a cap on any increase in future flight operations. That plan would downsize the Aug. 4 draft proposal, which allows the airport to build a new terminal with 14 gates that would measure 330,000 square feet, nearly twice the size of the existing terminal. It allows for expansion if airport officials gain federal approval to impose a curfew on night flights. Approval of the draft proposal must come from the Burbank City Council, and public hearings are planned. ROAR still has a chance of influencing the expansion plan, whether it comes in the form of an initiative or a referendum referendum, referral of proposed laws or constitutional amendments to the electorate for final approval. This direct form of legislation, along with the initiative, was known in Greece and other early democracies. to rescind To declare a contract void—of no legal force or binding effect—from its inception and thereby restore the parties to the positions they would have occupied had no contract ever been made. rescind v. any action taken by the council, said 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". Judy Sarquiz. ``There's a lot of pieces to the pie that need to come together before construction could actually begin,'' she said. ``We don't even know at this point what the plans would specifically entail entail, in law, restriction of inheritance to a limited class of descendants for at least several generations. The object of entail is to preserve large estates in land from the disintegration that is caused by equal inheritance by all the heirs and by the ordinary .'' If ROAR is successful in collecting the approximately 5,200 signatures required to put an initiative on the ballot, the council would then have the option of enacting the measure or calling for a citywide vote to decide the issue. |
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