LAX

During my campaign for office, I demanded an end to LAX expansion, the promotion of a system of regional aviation, and greater community involvement in airport planning.

In October 2004, at a meeting of the Westchester Neighbors Association, I unveiled the “Rosendahl Pledge for LAX”, a series of promises and commitments about constraining growth at LAX and promoting aviation. A little over a year later, I delivered on that promise.

In December 2005, Mayor Villaraigosa and I, joined by the Alliance for a Regional Solution to Airport Congestion (ARSAC) and elected officials from the local, county, state and federal level, announced a plan that we had settled a series of lawsuits against the airport, curbed LAX expansion, and begun to develop a plan for regional aviation.

This plan allows us to immediately modernize the airport, enhancing security and public safety. It also gives the local community a front seat and genuine decision-making power in a massive rewrite of the LAX Master Plan we all despised.

Specifically, the agreement:

Caps growth at LAX to 78 million passengers annually.
Scraps plans for the controversial multi-billion dollar remote check-in center at Manchester Square.
Kills plans to demolish much of the central terminal area and parking structures.

Over the next two years, Los Angeles World Airports will be working with me, the mayor, ARSAC and airport neighbors in a public process to:

Replace the Manchester Square project with a more community-friendly traffic mitigation plan.
Invite the FAA, the Southern California Association of Governments, airport operators and area counties to develop a plan to encourage airlines to spread air traffic among the region's airports, including Ontario International and the Palmdale facility, both of which the city of Los Angeles operates.
Accelerate soundproofing for airport neighbors.
Begin a traffic study to figure out how to unlock congestion on roads around the airport and ask the FAA to allow the airport to intersection and roadway improvements.
Ensure that previous promises regarding environmental mitigation are kept.
Extend the Metro Rail Green Line to LAX.
Spend $3 million to remove abandoned asphalt streets on the dunes west of the airport and replace them with native plants.
Reform LAWA’s community relations and give local residents an advocacy voice in airport decisions.


Rosendahl Acts to Protect Public Safety at LAX	01/04/2008
LAX News - LAWA hires NASA to Study North Runway Safety Issues	09/26/2007
Rosendahl's Open Letter on LAX North Runway Safety Study	09/26/2007
Rosendahl Calls on LAWA to Explain Lack of Runway Safety Technology	08/20/2007
Rosendahl Calls for LAX Congestion Pricing Study	08/17/2007
Rosendahl Announces Groundbreaking of Century Boulevard Beautification Project	08/16/2007
Rosendahl, Hahn Call for Immediate Report on Recent Computer Malfunction at LAX	08/15/2007
Rosendahl Moves Forward with New LAX Safety Study	06/20/2007
Rosendahl Calls for New Study of Runway Safety Unconvinced by "bogus arguments" in favor of moving runways north into Westchester and Playa del Rey, Councilman Bill Rosendahl introduced a motion calling for a new airport safety study that examines an end-around taxiway system.	06/06/2007
Opposition to LAWA's North Runway Complex Expansion Proposal The Alliance for a Regional Solution to Airport Congestion (ARSAC) and the Neighborhood Council of Westchester -Playa del Rey gave a joint presentation during the LAX North Runway Town Hall meeting opposing LAWA's proposal to move the northern runways closer to the communities of Westchester and Playa del Rey. To view the presentation, please click on the headline.	06/06/2007
LAX North Runway Safety Town Hall Meeting to Air on Channel 35	06/06/2007
Rosendahl Blasts Airport's Push for North Runway Movement City Councilman Bill Rosendahl today condemned as ludicrous, biased and unfounded airport-funded studies recommending that runways be moved north into Westchester and Playa del Rey neighborhoods.	06/01/2007
Los Angeles Airport to Expand Flyaway Bus System to Westwood	05/25/2007
Rosendahl Statement on LAX Runway Incursion	05/14/2007
Rosendahl Statement Regarding New LAWA Exec Director	05/10/2007
Six Principles for LAX Modernization	04/26/2007
Rosendahl Elected Chair of Southern California Regional Airport Authority	01/12/2007
Rosendahl Statement on North Runway Proposals	11/27/2006
Rosendahl Urges Public Input on LAX Traffic Councilman Bill Rosendahl is urging the public to attend the next round of public hearings on revising the LAX Master Plan and lobby for a Green Line extension into the airport...	04/10/2006

Last Updated: 05/12/2008 03:22:32 PM

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