KaiserAir to take next steps toward seeking move to Livermore Airport

The Livermore Airport Commission heard a verbal update Monday about the proposal to relocate the corporate offices of Oakland-based charter airliner KaiserAir to the Livermore Municipal Airport, which would also include the development of air facilities that could accommodate Boeing 737s.

Still in its early stages, KaiserAir is currently working with city building and planning staff on completing a planning general application to submit to the city’s planning division, according to assistant airport manager Sean Moran. There is no deadline associated with the application; however, the project can’t move ahead to the Planning Commission or to City Council until the documents are submitted.

The proposal already received an initial stamp of approval from the Airport Commission back in February, and if the forthcoming application makes it past the Planning Commission, the City Council would ultimately make the decision to approve or deny the 45-year lease.

If approved, the project would house KaiserAir’s corporate offices comprised of 30 to 40 employees and provide space for approximately six KaiserAir corporate aircraft — including one or more of the company’s Boeing 737 aircraft.

Several residents attended the virtual Airport Commission meeting Monday night to express concerns during public comment about potential noise impacts.

“At times there’s a plane every five minutes or every 10 minutes,” said Kamal Aggarwal, a Pleasanton resident who attended the meeting along with other members of a recently formed community coalition called the Livermore Airport Citizen’s Group (LACG).

“This has actually gotten worse over the last year. Some may say it’s because we are home longer — that’s why we notice more. And that is also true, but at the same time what we understand is that (the airport) is trying to accommodate more planes.” He added that pilots appear to be flying in a direction over residential neighborhoods as opposed to a different route over the San Francisco Premium Outlets.

LACG is comprised of Livermore, Pleasanton and Dublin residents who regularly experience planes from the Livermore airport flying over their homes.

The group’s organizers launched livermoreairportnoise.org, a website where they explain their opposition to the proposed project along with a link to a change.org petition where they are collecting signatures in an effort to thwart the KaiserAir expansion. The petition had reached nearly 4,000 signatures toward its goal of 5,000 names, as of Tuesday evening.

Aggarwal, who lives in the Pleasanton Meadows neighborhood, said his home is roughly two miles away from the Livermore airport. “737s are inherently much, much louder than the double props that currently fly out,” he said, describing that the double prop planes — also known as twin props — sound more like a lawnmower, whereas 737s sound more like thunder.

In addition to noise, the group’s website cites safety and the possibility of diminished property values as concerns surrounding the KaiserAir project.

The proposed development is planned for a 45-acre vacant parcel north of West Jack London Boulevard and south of Taxiway Lima and includes a “fixed based operator” (FBO) facility, offices, aircraft maintenance facilities, fuel farm, self-service aircraft fueling facility, corporate hangars, parking spaces and box t-hangars.

The Airport Commission will continue to receive verbal updates about the project during their meetings to keep abreast of its progress, Moran said.

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