LA Council planning panel supports LAX plan 2-1
The Los Angeles City Planning and Land Use Management Committee (PLUM) approved a modernization plan for Los Angeles International Airport (LAX) in a 2-1 vote Wednesday, October 6th, sending the LAX proposal to the City Council Commerce Committee for further review Thursday, October 7th. City Councilmembers Tony Cardenas and Ed Reyes voted to support the modernization plan. “It gets off the ground,” said Reyes about the proposed plan. Councilman Jack Weiss voted against the LAX modernization plan, citing security concerns he said have not been addressed. “Many officials have no intention of ever building the yellow-light projects and it’s dishonest and irresponsible to include them in the plan,” said Weiss, who wants to eliminate a Manchester Square ground transportation center from the plan. Los Angeles Councilwoman Cindy Miscikowski has proposed a consensus plan that would give a “green light” to noncontroversial parts of the LAX plan and a “yellow light” to controversial portions of the plan — which would require further study. Weiss had requested a legal analysis on the interconnection between the green-lighted projects and the yellow-lighted projects from the city attorney’s office at the previous week’s Planning and Land Use Management Committee meeting. Assistant city attorney Claudia Culling said that if the City Council wants to eliminate the yellow-light projects, the council would force the city airport department to begin new environmental studies that could take up...
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