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HomeMy WebLinkAbout2008-04-08 Airport advisory committee Agenda AGENDA DANIA BEACH AIRPORT ADVISORY COMMITTEE APRIL 24, 2008, THURSDAY 7:00 P.M. 1. ROLL CALL AND SELF INTRODUCTION 2. EXCUSED ABSENCES 3 MINUTES 3.1 MINUTES AUGUST 23, 2007 4. PRESENTATION OF SUB COMMITTEE REPORTS. 4.1 DISCUSSION OF RUNWAY PROJECT, MASTER PLAN UPDATE & PART 150 PROJECT, EIS UPDATE, TASK FORCE UPDATE.. 4.2 NOISE ABATEMENT COMMITTEE MEETING DISCUSSION 4.3 PRESENTATION OF ANY MEMBER RUNUP LOGS 5. UNFINISHED BUSINESS 6, NEW BUSINESS 7. ELECTION OF CHAIRPERSON AND VICE CHAIRPERSON 8. ADJOURN A REMINDER FROM THE CHAIR: ALL COMMITTEE MEMBERS WHO ARE UNABLE TO ATTEND THIS MEETING SHOULD WRITE A NOTE TO DANIA CLERK STATING YOU WILL BE ABSENT OR YOU WILL BE CHARGED WITH AN UNEXCUSED ABSENCE. THANK YOU. SEE YOU AT THE MEETING. AIRPORT ADVISORY BOARD MEMBERSHIP Friday, April 18, 2008 Name/Address Date Term Commission Phone Number Appointed Appointment Loretta Murray 214 SE Park Street March 14, 2007 Dania Beach, FL 33004 March 27, 2007 through Flury 954-921-1413 March 10, 2009 954-873-5133 Beulah Lair 1433 NW 8d' Street March 14, 2007 Dania Beach, FL 33004 March 27, 2007 through Flury 954-921-4715 March 10, 2009 George Jason 4549 S.W. 37d' Avenue March 14, 2007 Fort Lauderdale, FL 33312 May 22, 2007 through Flury 954-987-4347 March 10, 2009 Billy Phipps 946 Nautilus Isle March 14, 2007 Dania Beach, FL 33004 March 27, 2007 through Anton 954-923-0270 March 10, 2009 Richard Ramcharitar 4620 SW 42"d Terrace Dania Beach, FL 33314 954-530-2252 (Home) March 14, 2007 786-423-1646 (Cell.) October 23, 2007 through Anton March 10, 2009 rich ramcharitarna,yahoo.com richardra,canitalcomgroup.com Mike Grady 4501 SW 42 Avenue March 14, 2007 Fort Lauderdale, FL 33314 February 12, 2008 through Anton 954-327-9872 (Home) March 10, 2009 954-383-8271 Rae Sandler 810 NW 7d' Avenue March 14, 2007 Dania Beach, FL 33004 March 27, 2007 through Castro 954-649-0396 March 10, 2009 G:%Bowds\Boards 07-09\Ailport Advisory BoardAirport Advisory Board Membaship.DOC Page 1 of 2 AIRPORT ADVISORY BOARD MEMBERSHIP Friday, April 18, 2008 Name/Address Date Term Commission Phone Number Appointed Appointment Dick Sokol 609 NW IOdr Street March 14, 2007 Dania Beach, FL 33004 March 27, 2007 through Castro 954-925-9441 March 10, 2009 Betty Sokol 609 NW l Od' Street March 14, 2007 Dania Beach, FL 33004 March 27, 2007 through Castro 954-925-9441 March 10, 2009 Jay Field 4501 SW 30d' Way March 14, 2007 Dania Beach, FL 33312-5623 March 27, 2007 through Bertino 954-962-6335 March 10, 2009 Don Hill 4884 SW 24th Avenue March 14, 2007 Ft. Lauderdale, FL 33312 March 27, 2007 through Bertino 954-981-4576 March 10, 2009 Clive Taylor 642 NE 3`d Street March 14, 2007 Dania Beach, FL 33004 March 27, 2007 through Bertino 954-923-4439 March 10, 2009 Sulie Spencer 26 SW 7 h Avenue March 14, 2007 Dania Beach, FL 33004 April 24, 2007 through Jones 954-922-3617 March 10, 2009 Boisy N. Waiters, Jr. 733 SW 3rd Street March 14, 2007 Dania Beach, FL 33004 April 24, 2007 through Jones 954-922-4095 March 10, 2009 Linda Sacco 4481 SW 38d' Terrace March 14, 2007 Dania Beach, FL 33312 May 8, 2007 through Jones 954-966-4028 March 10, 2009 G:'Bomds\Bomds 07-09\Airport Advisory BoarMirporr Advisory Board Membership.Doc Page 2 of 2 April 17, 2008 Dear Airport Board Members, As you know, I have served as chairperson of the airport board for many years. As time goes forward, my hearing becomes less acute and hearing aids do not replace normal hearing. Therefore, 1 am asking the board to elect a new chairperson at our next meeting. I plan to continue service on the board until my term expires next year. Thank you. 4j;# J j Id Chairperson Dania Beach Airport Advisory Committee Spacer Spacer Spacer Spacer Spacer Spacer http://www.sun-sentinel.com/news/local/broward/sfl-cairportl Onov10,0,492471.story?coll=sfla- news-broward Runway expansion at Lauderdale airport could cost$30 million to pay neighbors By Bill Hirschman South Florida Sun-Sentinel November 10, 2006 A proposed runway expansion at Fort Lauderdale-Hollywood International Airport would be so noisy that the county would have to provide relief or compensation to 1,100 people living nearby, a report done for the county concludes. Solutions range from the county soundproofing their homes to buying the houses outright, a program that would cost at least$30 million in tax dollars, county officials said. For 12 years, the Broward County Commission has been exploring ways to expand airport operations to cope with a growing demand. While it has added a terminal and expanded parking, the key issue has been adding a second major runway or lengthening one of the two smaller runways. Each solution is expensive and must be approved by the Federal Aviation Administration. Each has upset neighbors and environmentalists. The noise report was requested by the commission to help determine the impact of the chief scenario that has been championed by commissioners since 2003. The study identifies neighborhoods that would be affected by adding nearly 3,000 feet to the east end of the south runway by 2012. The 523 homes are primarily south and west of the runway, including about 400 homes in the Melaleuca Gardens development in Dania Beach. Land to the east is primarily industrial tracts and public beaches. The neighborhoods were identified based on a daily noise level that the FAA says is severe enough to merit some kind of relief. The agency would contribute an undetermined amount of money toward that relief. Since 2003, commissioners have considered providing relief to neighborhoods where the sound levels weren't as high. But the study shows that another 4,000 homes would qualify for relief at that level --and the county would have to pay for it. Bob Bielek, the county's acting aviation director, and Fort Lauderdale-based Jacobs Consultancy, which wrote the report, did not have dependable cost estimates because the amount depends on whether homeowners want to sell their houses. But Bielek guessed the total would be$30 million to$50 million for less expensive options such as soundproofing and "three to five times that'for high-end solutions such as buying homes. The report's findings will be discussed in a commission workshop next month and at a public hearing early next year. Bob Anton, a resident of Melaleuca Gardens and opponent of the runway expansion, had not seen the report, but he said the county had done little for some neighborhoods currently plagued with noise problems. "Our belief in mitigation is skeptical at best," he said. The report outlines other possible solutions, including paying a fee to homeowners for the airport's right to create noise and giving low-income mobile home park residents priority to move to county- subsidized housing projects. County commissioners and the report's authors rejected taking the property against the homeowner's wishes, Bielek said. Initially, eminent domain was considered, but commissioners vetoed it during private one-on-one briefings while committing to only paying fair market value for a home. Built as an Air Force base when wban sprawl was almost unimaginable, the airport today is both easily accessible and hemmed in by three major highways and a ring of housing developments. Skyrocketing population and industry have aggravated increasing congestion. The report is one of three interdependent studies lumbering along at the same time. One is the county's master plan for expanding the terminals and another is an FAA study of how expanding the airport would affect the environment. Those two are expected to reach a public draft stage near the end of this year and be discussed in workshops and hearings early next year, Bill Hirschman can be reached at bhirschman@sun-sentinel.com or 954-356-4513. Copyright©2006, South Florida Sun-Sentinel Print This Article Posted on Fri, Feb. 22, 2008 Judge throws out charge against airport activist A Broward County judge has thrown out a trespassing charge filed against a county activist last summer during a debate about expanding Broward's main airport. Brenda Lee Chalifour, a lawyer and an anti-expansion activist, was arrested in June when the Broward County Commission met to discuss a controversial runway expansion at the Fort Lauderdale-Hollywood International Airport. Broward Sheriffs Office deputies arrested Chalifour after she got into an argument with then- Mayor Josephus Eggelletion Jr. about whether she could get more time to speak on behalf of pro- bono clients. Eggelletion declined to give her more time. And when Chalifour refused to sit down, Eggelletion told BSO to remove her. But Thursday morning, County Judge Mary Robinson dismissed the charge, saying Chalifour's actions didn't qualify as trespassing because she was on public property during a public meeting. Chalifour said Thursday she glad the charge was finally thrown out. 'The judge was the reasonable person in the room who agreed 'Yeah, this is kind of silly,' " she said. ©2008 Miami Herald Media Company. All Rights Reserved. hftpi//www.miamiheraid.com sun-sentinel.com/news/local/broward/sfl-fibcensus0320sbmar20,0,3l62113.story South Florida Sun-Sentinel.com Broward losing population for first time in history BY ROBIN BENEDICK South Florida Sun-Sentinel March 20, 2008 Click here to find out more! For perhapsthe first time in its history, Broward County lost population— 13,154 more people left than arrived during the past year, according to U.S. census estimates released today. The loss would have been more dramatic had it not been for newborns and the continuing influx of immigrants. Since 2000, three out of every four new Broward residents were foreign-born. Broward's population now totals 1.76 million. In the past two years, 55,808 more residents left the county than moved in from other states. That's roughly the population of Margate. Since 2004, the county has attracted between 13,000 and 14,000 foreign-born residents a year, gaining a total of 107,000 since 2000. "It's very clear that growth has slowed down substantially,"said Stan Smith, director of the Bureau of Economic and Business Research at the University of Florida. "It's partly due to the economic slowdown and the slowdown in job creation and the housing problems Florida has been facing." Anneke Reinhardt, of Hollywood, is among those trying to flee. "It is getting too expensive for me to live here and I don't have a nest egg," said Reinhardt, who has lived in Broward for 30 years and works at a lighting factory. "I feel I'm crazy staying here when the cost of living is so much less somewhere else." Her three-bedroom home with a pool in the Lakes area has been on the market since last year, and the divorced senior citizen is shopping for a home in Knoxville, Tenn. Census officials and demographers said they can't find any evidence that Broward,traditionaily among the nation's fastest-growing counties, has ever lost population before. The census has been taken every decade since 1790 and in recent years has been updated annually. The new census figures show only two other metropolitan areas, Detroit and Cleveland, lost more people than Broward did from July 2006 to July 2007. "This a real alarm," said William Frey, a demographer with the Brookings Institution, a Washington public policy think tank. "In a way Broward is a bellwether for the rest of the country, and if Broward is losing people, which in itself is so surprising, that shows how Florida, especially, is hard hit by this housing crunch." He and others predict the population slowdown is temporary. They say growth nationally is relatively stagnant because people aren't moving around as much in a recession and houses aren't selling. They also blame rising property taxes and insurance as well as lower wages for making the area less desirable for the time being. "Florida is too much of an attractive place for this to continue in the long term," Frey said. Smith, of the University of Florida, agreed. "I think the next couple of years will be very slow in population growth but as you go through the next decade, Florida in general will see growth return to normal levels." Florida overall grew by 193,735 people to 18.25 million last year. The year before, the state grew by 321,481. While Broward was hardest hit, nine other Florida counties lost population. Pinellas County near Tampa dropped by 5,456 and Monroe County lost 1,174. Others that dropped by a few hundred to 1,500 people were Bay, Charlotte, Escambia, Franklin, Glades, Jefferson and Okaloosa counties. Palm Beach County grew by only 99 people to 1.27 million from 2006 to 2007, a big change from the year before when the county's total population grew by 7,118 people. Miami-Dade gained 10,827 people to 2.39 million, about 9,000 fewer than the year before. From 2005 to 2006, Broward grew by a total of 2,038 people. Richard Ogburn, of the South Florida Regional Planning Council, speculated some of those leaving Broward are immigrants. For the most part, they are middle class, he said, whereas Miami-Dade tends to attract a wealthier newcomer. "What you have are people who were counted one year as [immigrants]who came to Broward or moved up from Miami-Dade and then they move on," Ogburn said. Maria Luisa Vicentini, 47, a Venezuelan awarded political asylum in January, said she came here initially because she had to leave her homeland quickly, and her brother offered his vacation home in Pompano Beach. Now she's looking for work in translation and broadcasting. She plans to stay. "I like it here," she said. "People are friendly and we have everything we need 20 or 25 minutes away." Robin Benedick can be reached at rbenedick@sun-sentinel.com or 954-385-7914. Sun-Sentinel Database Specialist Ryan McNeill and Staff Writer Ruth Morris contributed to this report. 55,808 More people left Broward County in the past two years than moved in from other states ONLINE Use our database to see changes in population growth by county since 2000 at Sun- Sentinel.com/census Copyright©2008, South Florida Sun-Sentinel