R-24 Correspondence – Joe Weinstein
From: Joe Weinstein <[email protected]>
Sent: Monday, September 11, 2023 8:37 PM
To: Council District 1 <[email protected]>; Council District 2 <[email protected]>; Council District 3 <[email protected]>; Council District 4 <[email protected]>; Council District 5 <[email protected]>; Council District 6 <[email protected]>; Council District 7 <[email protected]>; Council District 8 <[email protected]>; Council District 9 <[email protected]>; Mayor <[email protected]>; CityClerk <[email protected]> Cc: [email protected]
Subject: LB Council 09-12-2023 item 24 - Small aircraft are buzz-bombing our neighborhoods
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For the public record:
Dear Council members,
My Bixby Knolls neighborhood is now under buzz-bomb siege from small aircraft.
Incessant all morning and much of afternoon today.
We need action NOW to stop this.
I appreciate Council members Kerr and Supernaw’s heed to this topic.
However, the proposed resolution on the topic is weasal milquetoast.
It asks merely for a leisurely 45-day collection of information which should already be readily available.
Mere eventual information is not what we need.
We need ACTION NOW. We now need legal and enforcement protection from – or at least hefty daily penalties for - this arrogant buzz bombing! At the very least it is an obvious public nuisance.
If you really care to help us timely, amend the resolution to request that LGB, City Attorney, and City Prosecutor – in the next 7 days (quite enough for a priority information matter) - deliver to you all the requested information plus legal and penalty options.
There seems no reason that all these small aircraft flights – whatever their purpose, be it flight training, or vanity cruising or anything else – can’t be based at one or more inland desert airports and fly just over sparsely populated desert.
With minimal flight time, a handful of daily flights could airlift all the LA and Orange county pilots and passengers of these planes to and from one or more inland desert airports.
Joe Weinstein