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WORK STUDY SESSIONS <br />• Orange County produces 440,000 tons annually - John Wayne <br />Airport handles 5% of Orange County's cargo <br />• Today John Wayne Airport serves 7.5 million annual passengers <br />and 20,000 tons of air cargo <br />• Orange County is projected to grow from 2.6 million to 3.2 million <br />persons by 2020 <br />• By 2020 more than 20 million air passengers and 2 million tons of <br />air cargo will be using roadways <br />• The County believes that the El Toro Airport and Open Space Plan <br />is the economic and job growth engine that benefits all Orange <br />County and is essential to accommodating Orange County's share <br />of growing air passenger and cargo demand <br />• The airport at El Toro is anticipated to generate $9.7 billion <br />annually, and create 146,000 jobs both on and off site <br />• The airport is anticipated to reduce vehicle trips to outlying airports <br />by 761,910 fewer vehicle miles per day <br />• El Toro operated as a military airport for more than 50 years <br />• El Toro has a 14,000 acre buffer zone created to reduce noise <br />impact of military aircraft noise <br />• The Master Plan includes a regional park, educational and cultural <br />campus, habitat reserve, two golf courses, corporate campus, <br />public services, air cargo, hotel and business accommodations, and <br />state of the art airport <br />• Airplane landings will be from the South on runways; and <br />departures will be on the East <br />• Airport will increase access to global markets and international <br />trading partners <br />Following Mr. Simon's presentation, Councilmembers asked questions <br />concerning the types of jobs that will be created, the provisions for low <br />cost housing, the impact on the crime rates, and the impact the increase <br />of jobs and traffic will have on the County's arterial streets. <br />General Art Bloomer, former Commanding Officer of the El Toro Station, <br />addressed Council and answered questions relative to the safety of the <br />facilities and the concerns pilots have expressed about the safety of the <br />Airport <br />WS.B. CLEAN WATER ACT - Lisa Murphy, Orange County Sanitation District; <br />Highlights of this presentation are as follows: <br />• Twenty five members on Board of Directors <br />• District operates and maintains 2 regional treatment plants; 650 <br />miles of trunk sewers; and 22 pumping stations <br />CITY COUNCIL MINUTES 315 AUGUST 20, 2001 <br />