CARLSBAD — 

The Carlsbad airport has landed again on the San Diego County Board of Supervisors agenda for a gathering Wednesday.

The county licensed the McClellan-Palomar Grasp Plan Replace in 2018 after 5 years of research and planning, however then rescinded the certification after a Superior Court docket decide discovered the plan failed to look at all features of the consequences of airport noise on close by communities. The decide additionally mentioned the plan required an modification to a conditional-use allow Carlsbad issued for the county owned-and-operated airport in 1980.

A revised replace of the airport grasp plan was scheduled for consideration on the board’s Nov. 3 assembly, however the merchandise was pulled a day earlier than the assembly for the county to reply to a letter from Carlsbad Metropolis Supervisor Scott Chadwick.

Chadwick’s eight-page letter mentioned the county’s most up-to-date noise evaluation was poor, and that the environmental report accomplished for the grasp plan replace failed to indicate that future growth would “not compromise the well being and well-being of Carlsbad residents.”

Now the revised 20-year blueprint for airport growth, with responses to Chadwick’s letter, has touched down for consideration once more when the board meets at 9 a.m. Wednesday, Dec. 8, on the County Administration Constructing in San Diego.

The up to date grasp plan and the environmental affect report that goes with it define plans to put in extra security options, transfer the taxiway and different amenities, and prolong the airport’s single runway by as much as 800 toes. County officers say the adjustments would enhance security for plane already utilizing the airport, however wouldn’t broaden the power.

As beforehand accredited, the replace would reclassify the airport from its present B-II standing to a D-III facility.

The airport replace is supported by North County enterprise folks and organizations such because the Carlsbad Chamber of Commerce, whereas a bunch of residents led by the Residents for A Pleasant Airport opposes approval of the replace and filed swimsuit to cease it.