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LAONT endows Ontario with a national and international presence and provides superb growth opportunities, multi-modal transportation opportunities, and an enhanced ability to attract businesses. The airport is one of the main reasons we are the center of the Inland Empire, and we have geared our land uses to support its growth. We have strategically focused our most intensive growth and investments around the airport.
While we embrace the benefits LAONT brings, we also work to minimize its impacts. The airport brings issues of compatibility, noise, safety, pollution, and traffic. The benefits of LAONT must be balanced with the need to provide a desirable quality of life for all our citizens.
Growth of LAONT
The Southern California Association of Governments (SCAG) Regional Transportation Plan (RTP) predicts that demand for passenger service will double by 2030 and air cargo will triple. The RTP proposes to accommodate this growth at outlying airports rather than by expansion of Los Angeles International Airport (LAX). The SCAG RTP relies on LAONT to accommodate a larger share of the total passenger and air cargo demand in the future in order to serve this growing regional demand. Between 2003 and 2020, annual aircraft operations are forecast to increase from 135,183 to 398,083 flights; total passengers are expected to increase from 6.6 million to 25.4 million per year; and air cargo is projected to increase from 572,000 tons to 1.6 million tons per year. As of 2007, LAONT had the capacity to accommodate 10 million annual passengers.
Planning for LAONT
At the time of the writing of this Policy Plan, Los Angeles World Airports (LAWA) was in the process of developing a new Airport Master Plan for LAONT and its adoption was anticipated in mid-2009. The Airport Master Plan provides for the overall maintenance, development, and operation of the Airport itself. After approval of the Airport Master Plan, a Comprehensive Land Use Plan (CLUP) must be prepared and adopted by the City of Ontario Airport Land Use Commission (ALUC). The CLUP will provide for the orderly growth of the airport and the area surrounding the airport. The CLUP identifies areas outside of the airport property that will be influenced by the operations of the airport and describes any related restrictions and appropriate land uses. Specifically, the CLUP includes the adopted noise contours and safety zones and the appropriate land uses, maximum population density, maximum site coverage, height restrictions, and area of required notification/disclosure in and around the airport.
Until these actions occur, this Policy Plan is based upon the ongoing master planning efforts of LAWA. Enough information was known about the potential growth of LAONT from the ongoing master planning efforts that we could still effectively plan for the future.
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