HomeMy WebLinkAbout18679 - RESOLUTIONS - 8/2/1995 RESOLUTION NO. 18679
OF THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF PALM
SPRINGS, REQUESTING THE FEDERAL AVIATION
ADMINISTRATION (FAA) TAKE ALL STEPS
NECESSARY TO COMPLETE THE IMMEDIATE
RELOCATION OF THE AIRPORT SURVEILLANCE
RADAR. '
WHEREAS the Palm Springs Regional Airport is presently served by an ASR-5 (Airport
Surveillance Radar) radar system owned and operated by the FAA; and
WHEREAS in 1986 the FAA announced its intention to relocate the: ASR-5 as the present site
provides less than optimum primary radar coverage in the Banning Pass which is one of the
major airways into the Los Angeles Basin; and
WHEREAS in 1991 the FAA announced "an extensive modernization program that will
coincide with delivery of the ASR-8 to Palm Springs"; and
WHEREAS during a recent Department of Transportation Inspector General audit series,
airports were found to not be meeting their obligations to be as "self-sufficient. as possible"
if they were not marketing their vacant land; and
WHEREAS Palm Springs Regional Airport presently has leases pending for 32 acres of land
that: will generate over one-quarter million dollars revenue per year, but, the ASR-5 protection
zone does not allow the projects to proceed,
NOW THEREFORE BE IT RESOLVED by the City Council of the City of Palm Springs that the '
FAA is hereby requested to immediately begin the ASR relocation and proceed as rapidly as
possible to complete the project to alleviate the safety problems and allow for vital Airport
economic development to occur.
ADOPTED this 2nd day of August 1995.
AYES: Members Hodges, Kleindienst, Reller-Spurgin and Mayor pro tem Lyons
NOES: None
ABSENT: Mayor Maryanov
ATTEST: CIT 'OF PA�:S IFORNIA
—City Clerk City Manager
REVIEWED & APPROVED AS TO FORM