San Jose Municipal Code Part 9 Airfield Development Conditions

A. The 1997 Airport Master Plan contains estimates of the numbers of peak hour operations which could be accommodated at the airport, given specified operational factors which include ceiling and visibility conditions, runway configuration and use patterns, aircraft fleet mix, air traffic demand, the ratio of arrivals to departures, general aviation touch-and-go operations, runway occupancy times, and airspace system and air traffic control procedures.

B. If during the implementation of the 1997 Airport Master Plan there are demonstrated changes in the operational factors which vary materially from those assumed factors, and such changes result in numbers of peak hour operations exceeding the one hundred thirty hourly operations capacity estimated in the 1997 Airport Master Plan, the director shall prepare a report to city council on the changed circumstances, such that council may reconsider whether it may be necessary to pursue possible operational restrictions with the Federal Aviation Administration.

(Ord. 25528.)

A. The configuration of runways 30L/12R and 30R/12L on the airfield in the 1997 Airport Master Plan does not allow, pursuant to applicable federal laws, regulations, and guidelines, for the conducting of simultaneous landings or takeoffs by transport category aircraft.

B. A vote by the city council to expand the existing boundaries of the airport as they existed on July 1, 1997, in order to increase separation of runways so as to allow simultaneous landings or takeoffs by transport category aircraft shall require a two-thirds vote of the city council.

(Ord. 25528.)