HomeMy WebLinkAboutReso 5518-1971RESOLUTION NO. 5518
CITY COUNCIL, CITY OF SOUTH SAN FRANCISCO, STATE OF CALIFORNIA
A RESOLUTION REQUESTING ADOPTION OF
OPERATING PROCEDURES AND REGULATORY
ACTS RELATED TO NOISE ABATEMENT AT
SAN FRANCISCO INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT.
BE IT RESOLVED by the City Council of the City of South
San Francisco that
WHEREAS, the Council has given serious and thorough con-
sideration to the need for and the feasibility of an allevia-
tion of the aircraft noise heretofore suffered by and currently
impinging upon the City of South San Francisco; and
WHEREAS, departure operations-of air-carrier-type airplanes
propelled by turbojet or turbofan engines from Runway 28L or
Runway 28R at the San Francisco International Airport have
exposed large residential and otherwise noise-sensitive areas
of the City of South San Francisco to an increasing number of
high-perceived-noise-level intrusions; and
WHEREAS, on at least two past occasions turbine-powerplant
components or entire turbine engines detached themselves from
air-carrier-type airplanes and fell to the ground within the
city limits of the City of South San Francisco during climb-
outs following takeoff from Runway 28L or Runway 28R at the
San Francisco International Airport; and
WHEREAS, it is understood that the wind velocity pre-
vailing at the San Francisco International Airport exerts a
controlling influence upon the selective use of runways for
takeoff; and
WHEREAS, the City Council of the City of South San
Francisco is desirous that the use of Runways 28L and 28R
at the San Francisco International Airport be minimized for
departure operations to the fullest extent permitted by the
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current state of the art of aircraft design and aircraft
operation, subject only to consideration of operational
safety; and
WHEREAS, a review of existing preferential-runway
departure operations at the San Francisco International Air-
port (which departure operations are substantially as pro-
posed by the City of South San Francisco on November 26,
1957) in the light of preferential-runway procedures cur-
rently in effect at airports operated by the Port of New
York Authority and elsewhere, and in the light of standard
operating procedures practiced at airports equipped with
single runways or substantially parallel runways only, such as
Oakland, Los Angeles, and San Diego, California, has revealed
the feasibility of an expanded scope and number of departure
operations on San Francisco International Airport Runways 1
during extended periods of moderate, relatively steady,
westerly winds and in certain conditions of calm wind (zero
to 4 knots); and
WHEREAS, an in-depth technical research study has been
performed by Maurice A. Garbell, Inc., of San Francisco,
California, a nationally known and respected firm of aero-
nautical consultants having particular expertise relative to
flight and air-traffic-control operations at noise-sensitive
airports (which airports include, among others, the San
Francisco International Airport, the Oakland International
Airport, and the airports of the Port of New York Authority),
under a consultative contract with the City of South San
Francisco, which study has produced supporting evidence on
the technical feasibility and safety on the regulatory via-
bility of the said expanded departure operations of jet air-
craft from San Francisco International Airport Runways iR
and iL; and
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WHEREAS, a preliminary report by the aforementioned Garbell
firm, entitled "Aircraft Noise Abatement at the San Francisco
International Airport," dated January 25, 1971, was drafted
and circulated within the airline, airport, and government
community concerned with the operation of aircraft at the San
Francisco International Airport, which preliminary report
elicited concurring and constructive comments received by the
aforementioned Garbell firm during the past six weeks, all
of which have been given careful consideration and the results
whereof have been incorporated in a formal report, dated
March 10, 1971, entitled "Aircraft Noise Abatement at the San
Francisco International Airport";
NOW~ THEREFORE, the City Council of the City of South San
Francisco, California, does hereby respectfully request and
propose:
1. That the air carriers operating turbojet and turbofan-
propelled aircraft at the San Francisco International Airport
adopt and insert in their flight manuals company procedures
prescribing the use of San Francisco Runways iL and iR as
preferential runways in lieu of Runways 28L and 28R in weather
conditions substantially as outlined in the attached report
entitled "Aircraft Noise Abatement at the San Francisco Inter-
national Airport," dated March 10, 1971, and for the employment
of noise-abatement climbout procedures from Runways 28 sub-
stantially as outlined in the said report, with the specific
understanding that all such operations be subject to the
authority and responsibility of the pilot in command of each
aircraft to ensure the safe operation of the aircraft at all
times.
2. That the San Francisco International Airport and
the San Francisco Airports Commission approve the noise-
abatement procedures substantially as outlined in the Report
"Noise Abatement at the San Francisco International Airport"
attached to this Resolution and provide the necessary facil-
ities that will serve and facilitate the operation of said
noise-abatement procedures.
3. That the Federal Aviation Administration establish
certain regulatory undertakings interpreting, waiving, or
altering - to the extent necessary - the provisions of exist-
ing Federal Aviation Regulations and Federal Aviation Admini-
stration Agency Orders, some of which are specifically dis-
cussed in the Report "Noise Abatement at the San Francisco
International Airport" (pages 25 and 26) attached hereto, so
as to enable and empower the San Francisco International Air-
port Control Tower to assign a preferential noise-abatement
runway to each departing aircraft when weather conditions and
other circumstances permit and when the pilot in command of
the respective aircraft concurs.
4. That the San Francisco Sound Abatement Center under-
take to perform and do the following:
_a. Coordinate all necessary steps to consider,
approve, and establish the revised noise-abatement pro-
cedures at the San Francisco International Airport,
implementing substantially the proposals contained in the
attached report, in cooperation with all private, municipal
and Federal entities concerned;
b_. Coordinate and monitor continually the establish-
ment of records on the extent of and reasons for the use of
Runways 28 in conditions when Runways 1 would presumably
have served as preferential departure runways, and which
reasons would comprise primarily:
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b(1). Takeoff field length limitations on Runways 1;
b(2). Excessive delays in reaching Runways 1
attributable to airways delays on departure routes
other than the one intended for the given aircraft;
which records might be helpful in the planning and sub-
stantiation of future deVelopment of runways, taxiways, and
other facilities at the San Francisco International Airport
and at various Air Traffic Control facilities of the
Federal Aviation Administration in the San Francisco Bay
Area.
Copies of this Resolution, accompanied by copies of
the Garbell Report, "Noise Abatement at the San Francisco Inter-
national Airport," March 10: 1971, are being forwarded simul-
taneously for action to:
1. The Sound Abatement Center, San Francis co (3 copies).
2. The General Manager of the San Francisco International
Airport (3 copies).
3.The San Francisco Airports Commission (7 copies).
4. The Flight Managers of all airlines operating at the
San Francis co International Airport (2 copies each,
totaling 38 copies).
5.The Federal Aviation Administration, as follows:
The Area Manager, San Francisco Area Office (3 copies).
The Director, Western Region, Los Angeles (3 copies).
The Administrator, Federal Aviation Administration,
Washington, D. C. (5 copies).
6. Additional copies are being sent to airline pilots'
organizations.
Other airport authorities.
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Several research specialists and facilities of the
National Aeronautics and Space Administration.
The California Department of Aeronautics.
The Associated Bay Area Governments.
The Bay Conservation and Development Commission,
and others who have favored the project with infor-
mation and comments.
I hereby certify that the foregoing Resolution was
regularly introduced and adopted by the City Council of the
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City of South San Francisco at a regular meeting
held on the 15th day of
by the following vote:
March , 19 71 ,
AYES, ~COUNCILMEN Patrick E. Ahern, Frank J. Bertucelli, William A.
Borba, F. Frank Mammini and Warren Steinkamp
NOES, " None
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ABSENT, None
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