From: Madlen
To: Lara Weisiger
Subject: [EXTERNAL] Support for 7 A
Date: Tuesday, March 18, 2025 4:19:58 PM
Attachments: OAK Letter of Support_ OAK Settlement Agreement.docx - Google Docs.pdf --
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March 18, 2025
Jennifer Ott, City Manager
City of Alameda
2263 Santa Clara Ave
Alameda, CA 94501
Dear City Manager Ott:
On behalf of Oakland Roots and Soul Sports Club, we are pleased to support the settlement agreement between the City of Alameda, Citizen’s League for Airport Safety and Serenity (CLASS), and the Port of Oakland regarding Oakland Airport’s (OAK) Terminal Modernization and Development Project.
The agreement will help protect Alameda residents from potential increases in noise, pollution, and traffic that may be caused by the OAK Terminal Modernization and Development Project. This includes new air quality monitoring and reporting and local traffic planning measures to prevent roadway congestion in Alameda. It also includes an improved airport noise plan for airplanes using OAK’s North Field, and an affirmation of the airport’s zero emission operations goals.
OAK is owned and operated by the Port of Oakland. It generates over $1.6 billion in economic impact, 30,000 direct jobs, $575 million in direct wages, and $373 million in state and local taxes annually. OAK currently has 29 aircraft gates in two aged terminals which no longer meet current industry standards. New investment is needed to modernize OAK facilities, meet industry safety standards, improve operational efficiency, and accelerate the environmental sustainability goals of the airport. This project would modernize Terminals 1 and 2, consolidate passenger processing functions, construct expanded international arrival facilities, construct a new passenger terminal, and improve the terminal area roadway and parking areas.
Alameda would greatly benefit from the increased jobs and economic activity that this project would generate. It would increase workforce development partnerships and create thousands of construction jobs under the Port’s Project Labor Agreement. In addition, the project will include local hiring preferences and small and local business utilization programs to ensure that Alameda workers and companies can directly benefit from the project.
We are pleased to see the continued collaboration between the City of Alameda, Port of Oakland, and the community. We look forward to seeing this project move forward.
Sincerely,
Lindsay Barenz
Oakland Roots and Soul Sports Club
www.oaklandrootssc.com