If You Care About Quality of Life in Portuguese Bend, Attend Tonight's City Council Meeting. Listen. Learn. Speak.

If you care about our environment, including:

• the air we breathe
• the noise we hear
• the general quality of life in our semi-rural area

then PLEASE attend the RPV city council meeting tonight at 7 p.m. at Hesse Park. The council will be discussing the change in airspace designation at Long Beach airport and how it impacts our city. This is of particular concern to residents of Portuguese Bend, because we live right on the edge of the impacted area. 

I blogged about this issue twice before: here and here. 

For even more detailed information, the city website now has a complete rundown on all the details, with links to various maps and staff reports, a presentation by the Southern California Airspace Users Workshop, comments by the Aircraft Owners and Pilot Association, and even a template for a letter to the FAA for those who wish to express their ideas on this topic. 

Finally, yesterday's Daily Breeze featured a roundup of information and maps on its front page. The interactive maps in the online version of the story are particularly helpful.

This issue concerns all of us.

I do not know if our Community will have official representation at the City Council meeting tonight. My inquiry about this matter has gone unanswered. The next PBCA Board meeting is next Monday. Our board did not deal with the airport issue at the last Board meeting  in August, electing instead to devote the entire meeting to the revised CC&Rs.

So, it appears that we in Portuguese Bend are on our own in terms of telling the city council how we feel about this issue.

To hear what your neighbors think about this, and to tell the city council what you think, shut off your tv tonight, and put down that book you're reading, and come to the city council meeting.