From: Steve Fenwick <scf@w0x0f.com>
Subject: ANMF goals
Date: Mon, 7 Oct 1996 23:35:13 -0700 (PDT)
To: moffett-alliance@lists.best.com
A general question about Moffett and Bay area airports in general:
The Santa Clara County Supervisors are about to vote (late November) to
shut down Reid-Hillview. This will undoubtedly put more pressure on opening
up Moffett to general aviation. It also seems possible that, if cargo is
successful at Moffett, it may shift traffic away from SJC/SFO/OAK, reducing
the need for RHV, HWD, and PAO as reliever airports (or at least making
that a plausible story for the S.C. Supes vs. the Feds.)
Has anyone at ANMF thought of working with the folks at CRAMP, or one of
the other GA support groups, to get a mutual-support effort going? The goals
are not entirely mutually exclusive--perhaps a deal along the lines of ANMF
helps keep RHV open to prevent GA at Moffett, and CRAMP et al. help keep
air cargo out of Moffett in exchange for support in keeping RHV and other
small airports open.
Okay, maybe it's a bonehead, late-night idea, but it seems that the grassroots
organizations need to work together to keep big government/business from
overwhelming each group piecemeal. Obviously, this will not appeal to either
the extreme elements in either group, but maybe the moderate elements in
each can find the common ground to help each achieve their goals?
Steve
From: DeLong007@aol.com
Date: Tue, 8 Oct 1996 16:58:47 -0400
To: moffett-alliance@lists.best.com
Steve Fenwick raised some interesting points in his message. I find it particularly
ironic that the SJMN (presumably a mouthpiece for San Jose and Santa Clara
County interests) calls Mountain View and Sunnyvale residents NIMBYs for
not wanting commercial and/or GA operations to start up at Moffett when
Ried-Hillview is being closed because of NIMBYism by others about an airport
that predated the surrounding development.
However, he did not deal with the fact that San Jose wants to move GA out
of SJC to make room for more commercial passenger operations that will bring
in additional revenue. If Ried-Hillview is not closed could the GA planes
likely to be thrown out of SJC be moved to Ried-Hillview? What is the likelihood
of such an action being approved by the County Board of Supervisors in the
current environment?
Doug DeLong
From: Steve Fenwick <scf@w0x0f.com>
Date: Tue, 8 Oct 1996 20:48:03 -0700 (PDT)
To: moffett-alliance@lists.best.com
The county supes are likely to vote to close RHV this November. Some of
this is eastside-westside politics, some is the supes poking back at the
San Jose City Council, which wants to keep RHV open, most (IMO) is fiscal
politics--RHV is sitting on land that could be occupied by several hundred
new housholds.
It's not clear what authority the SC supes have, how much the county would
have to pay back to the federal government for previous grant assurances,
or how the county would even go about closing down a facility staffed by
federal employees (tower staff.) It's also not clear that the adminstration
of SJC could kick GA out of SJC, although they might like to try.
NIMBYism aside, is there any point in trying to get the two groups to try
to cooperate on their interrelated goals, or do the folks running ANMF feel
sufficiently strong with what they've got?
Steve
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