The Weekly Newspaper of El Segundo
Herald Publications - El Segundo, Hawthorne, Lawndale & Inglewood Community Newspapers Since 1911 - (310) 322-1830 - Vol. 110, No. 11 - March 18, 2021
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City Voices Strong Disapproval
of Massive LAX Expansion
By Rob McCarthy
The city has put Los Angeles World Airport
officials on notice that El Segundo believes
the airport’s planned expansion violates state
law and should be scaled back. A 200-page
response to the airport’s environmental impact
report was delivered Monday, a legal step
that Mayor Drew Boyles admits won’t halt
the project entirely.
Holding up the three-inch-thick response
to the LAX development plan, Boyles said
El Segundo officials hope to minimize the
jet noise, air pollution, and traffic expected
from the addition of two passenger terminals
and 29 arrival and departure gates at the
airport. LAWA wants to build the airport’s
first terminal east of Sepulveda Boulevard.
According to the mayor, the east terminal
and rerouting airport traffic toward El Segundo
and neighboring cities greatly concern
El Segundo officials. The thick document
for LAWA officials to consider before any
construction can begin includes statements
by expert witnesses who say the airport’s
latest modernization draft plan violates the
California Environmental Quality Act. Known
as CEQA, the law protects people living near
large developments and requires the airport
to inform the neighboring cities of its plans.
Manhattan Beach, Hermosa, Torrance, and
Rancho Palos Verdes were expected to file
letters objecting to the environmental and
traffic impacts, which the LAX draft EIR
readily admits will result if another concourse
and terminal are built at the airfield. Boyles
estimates five or six local governments are on
record opposing the expansion unless changes
are made to minimize the noise, protect the air,
and additional car trips. LAWA must respond
to public comments from surrounding cities
and other stakeholders before moving forward.
“We can’t stop this project from happening,”
the mayor admitted, explaining the city’s best
hope is to get airport officials to carefully
consider how the changes in passenger traffic
at LAX will adversely affect its neighbors.
“We can insert ourselves in the process from
a political, legal, and public-relations standpoint
to ensure we get the best deal possible for the
El Segundo residents,” Boyles said. The deadline
to file public comments was Monday. LAWA
officials extended the comment period at the
request of El Segundo city leaders.
The LAX construction is estimated to cost
$6 billion and take seven years to complete.
Increasing the number of daily arrivals and
departures has a long-term effect. However, the
dust and air emissions from construction are
the more immediate concern for El Segundo.
Passenger capacity at LAX could grow
by 50 percent over the next two-and-a-half
decades. “All of this is going to have a
profound effect on us,” Councilman Lance
Giroux warned back in November when he
briefed council members about the size and
Friday See City Council, page 10
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El Segundo Realtor Bill Ruane
Continues to Crush the Competition
By Duane Plank
Anyone who has lived in or traversed the
confines of El Segundo has probably viewed
the branding signage of RE/MAX’s Estate
Properties wildly successful realtor Bill
Ruane on commercial properties and homes
for sale, or maybe even a bus bench or two.
Well respected in the community, Ruane
is touted for his industry negotiating skills,
breadth of real estate knowledge, and tireless
work ethic as he builds relationships with
all parties in the real estate spectrum. He is
also noted for his “flexible” work hours;
suffice to say, one might see Ruane plying his
trade long after the sun has set each evening.
On his expanded working hours, Ruane
said he has established non-standard work
hours to better serve his clients, naming
employees at LAX, and the Chevron plant,
as well as nurses, doctors, policemen and
women, and firefighters, who all work
differing shifts, and are not always able
to conduct business on the old 9 a.m. to 5
p.m. business-day timeframe. He did also
note that while he works expanded hours,
the advent of technology has allowed him
to get more accomplished in less time and
gives him ample time to continually welcome
new clients into the RE/MAX fold.
Ruane attempts to couple his client’s
homeowner and commercial real estate
needs by exposing them to the full gamut
of financial opportunities that are available
See Bill Ruane, page 2