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• • - DRAFT- Questions to the Port of Oakland Regarding Adding a 2 ILS to the North Field Members of the San Leandro community have expressed concerns that adding an additional ILS to the North Field would increase capacity and air traffic over noise sensitive neighborhoods. Statements in official Port of Oakland documents lead to the belief that the Port of Oakland acknowledges the future need to increase traffic at the North Field and bring regularly scheduled passenger carriers and large cargo carriers to the North Field. Before the City of San Leandro can take a position on this matter, there are a number of questions and concerns that need to be answered. These have been outlined below. Please provide written answers to and /or clarification of these points as quickly as possible. We understand that the FAA is actively studying this proposal, and we would like to take a position on the matter soon. 1) The 1996 Draft Environmental Impact Statement/Environmental Impact Report for the Airport Development Program, Table 1: Impact Summary Table, Section 4.1 Noise, describes impacts from Aircraft Noise and Vibration as follows: Aircraft- related noise and vibration levels in the vicinity of MOIA in 2000 and 2010 would change as a result of increases in passenger and air cargo aircraft activity and changes in the aircraft fleet mix and runway utilization patterns at the Airport. The Mitigation section for this impact states: (2) The Port of Oakland would take actions necessary to accommodate projected • commercial jet aircraft arrivals on Runway 27L in 2010 rather than on Runway 27R for the purpose of shifting the projected 65 CNEL contour from the Interstate 880 corridor, where residential uses are located, to the west where land uses are generally industrial. 2) Table S -3 of the 2003 Draft Supplemental Environmental Impact Report, Airport Development Program, in a Summary of Significant Impacts and Mitigation Measures for the Airport Development Program, lists as its first item "Aircraft noise impacts to residential areas of the Cities of Alameda and San Leandro in 2010." The listed Mitigation Adopted by Port states: Noise insulation; redirect commercial passenger jet aircraft to Runway 27L; and continue current noise abatement policies. The Port's 2001 Airfield Planning Report makes several references to relocation of the ILS from 27R to 27L. 3) The concluding paragraph of Section 12.1 2. states: It should be noted that relocating the ILS from Runway 27R to 27L had been mentioned in the Environmental Impact Report for the Airport Development Plan