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1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16' 17 18 19 20 21 23 24 25 26 27 28 RESOLUTION NO, R-28-99 RESOLUTION OF THE CITY OF COLTON SUPPORTING CERTAIN ACTIONS TAKEN BY SAN BERNARDINO ASSOCIATED GOVERNMENTS IN THE DEVELOPMENT OF A REGIONAL AIRPORT PLAN FOR SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA WHEREAS, access to commercial and cargo aviation opportunities is important to economic vitality and job creation throughout the region; and WHEREAS, aviation demand within the entire region is forecast to exceed 157 million air passengers per year and 8.9 million tons of air cargo per year by 2020; and WHEREAS, the Los Angeles Department of Airports has initiated a revision of the Masterplan for Los Angeles International Airport (LAX) that advocates expansion of its passenger activity from 60 million air passengers per year to an expected 98 million per year and its cargo activity from its current 1. 7 million tons per year to an expected 4.2 million tons per year; and WHEREAS, airport officials estimate that the expansion of LAX to accommodate the proposed level of aviation activity would cost as much as 12 billion dollars, and would necessitate the expenditure of billions of dollars more to lessen its impact on the ground transportation system; and WHEREAS, the proposed expansion, given LAX'S location in the built -out, intensely congested west side of the South Coast Air Basin where its contribution to air pollution is greatest, appears to be a high-cost, high -impact approach to meeting the region's need for added aviation capacity; and WHEREAS, there are at.least nine other developing or existing commercial airports in Southern, California, several of which are located in areas expected to experience the greatest growth in population and employment over the next 20 years, while the LAX area is expected to experience the region's least growth; and WHEREAS, developing airport capacity in areas of high growth and lower 1