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Study set for project near airport in Camarillo
City wants safety assessment for Springville development
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More from CamarilloA Torrance-based company will soon study noise and safety risks that airplanes pose for a proposed development of up to 1,350 residences near the Camarillo Airport.
The Camarillo City Council voted 5-0 Wednesday night to hire ACTA Inc. to conduct a study for the 173-acre Springville Specific Plan area.
Springville, about a half-mile from the airport, is north of Highway 101, south of West Ponderosa Drive, west of North Las Posas Road and east of West Daily Drive.
ACTA's study will include an $11,500 assessment to determine the risk of a plane landing in the area. The company plans to study a variety of data, including the level of activity at the airport and its accident history.
The other part of ACTA's study is an $8,500 analysis aimed at determining how much aircraft noise the future residents could be subject to, City Manager Jerry Bankston said.
ACTA will begin the study immediately, Bankston said, and probably complete it within about two months.
At a public hearing on the Springville plan in June, several pilots expressed concerns about noise and safety issues related to the proposed development.
The county Aviation Advisory Commission and the Camarillo Airport Authority asked the city to consider doing a study. The city is preparing a final environmental impact report and specific plan for Springville, and the council will consider the study's findings before giving final approval. The specific plan would set guidelines for development and land use in the area.
Posted by tom on August 24, 2007 at 6:43 a.m. (Suggest removal)
A good move by the City Council. Let's hope that the study is will done...
Now the inadequate parking needs to be also addressed or overflow cars will be parked all over western Camarillo.
Posted by tdcjerry on August 24, 2007 at 9:45 a.m. (Suggest removal)
In 31 years living in Camarillo i don't think a plane has landed in those fields,could a plane land here? not likely. The freeway noise is much louder than the plane noise. Study done, how do i get my 20K?
Posted by brian_williams on August 24, 2007 at 2:56 p.m. (Suggest removal)
A pilot must always be ready to make an emergency landing. Especially during take off when engines and other system are more prone to failure and there is insufficient altitude to return to the runway.
Springville is the open field pilots would resort to. I already know what the outcome of the study will be; they never say - "Don't build there"
Big money always wins.
Posted by omie on August 24, 2007 at 4:44 p.m. (Suggest removal)
Others will call it progress, I call it losing what VC residents used to enjoy. Anyone remember how small Newberry park used to be, now I can see houses up on those hills. Soon it will make its way down Cam Springs and populate the local mountains, ruin what wildlife is left all in the name of progress.
Posted by glenn62 on August 24, 2007 at 6:10 p.m. (Suggest removal)
You can't stop progress. Build it and they will come.
Posted by tom on August 25, 2007 at 6:18 a.m. (Suggest removal)
Springville is simply a very bad project for Camarillo. Has the potential to be the "slums" of the town. And it will cause major crime and parking problems on the west side. When you go to Ralphs or MacDonalds you may be met by an armed guard to keep you from parking there long term. Eat that hamburger fast and move along!
Posted by JenLynn on August 25, 2007 at 10:14 p.m. (Suggest removal)
Wow I don't remember buying a house in the O.C.
Maybe the developer should take a look at Village at the Park, they can't sell all the houses they have planned and there hasn't even been a super market anchor who will come in for those people and oh, what happen to the sports park?
I hate to say this, but I would rather see a shopping mall go there then more houses. Better yet build a new high school there.
Posted by shaver_one on August 27, 2007 at 11:02 a.m. (Suggest removal)
Dear Camarillo;
If they build this new housing project, expect to lose your airport. In 10 or 15 years, when the community is all settled in, there will be a fight over the noise and pollution of the airport.
These residents will forget that the airport was their first. They will forget that they chose to live in the landing pattern of that airport. They will claim that it is affecting their health. And, as someone above mentioned, big money wins...as does numbers at the polls.
If you doubt what I say...ask yourself this:
Where have all the farms gone? And why is there now a 'buffer zone' around those still remaining farms that have been in this county for a hundred years?
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