Please share this event with friends and family in Culver City, Mar Vista, West L.A., Pacific Palisades, Santa Monica and the entire region: INFORMATIONAL MEETING NOTICE Guest Speaker: Denny Schneider - Chair, LAX Community Noise Roundtable Denny Schneider will talk about NextGen / SoCal Metroplex and field your questions. L.A. Councilmember Mike Bonin's LAX Community Liaison will also attend. FAA representative Rob Henry has been invited. Congresswoman Karen Bass's District Director Maral Karaccusian has also been invited. All are welcome to attend this informational meeting sponsored by the North Westdale Neighborhood Association. WHEN: Wednesday, December 9th, 7:00 PM WHERE: Saint Andrew's Lutheran Church 11555 National Blvd., L.A. 90064 (Federal Ave. and National Blvd.) *** Across the nation people have been sharing their concerns about the NextGen impacts. Mar Vista, North Westdale, Culver City, and Pacific Palisades residents are not happy with the changes. Some background information: The Next Generation Air Transportation System (NextGen) is a new National Airspace System due to be completed across the United States in stages between 2012 and 2025. NextGen proposes to transform America’s air traffic control system from a ground-based system to a satellite-based system. GPS technology will be used to shorten routes, save time and fuel, reduce traffic delays, increase capacity, and permit controllers to monitor and manage aircraft with greater safety margins. Planes will be able to fly closer together, take more direct routes and avoid delays caused by airport “stacking” as planes wait for an open runway. The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) is in the midst of transforming the entire U. S. air transportation system. To coordinate flights in areas with multiple commercial and general aviation airports, the FAA has designated “Metroplex” areas. Our area, the “SoCal Metroplex,” will organize flights from 13 regional airports including LAX and Santa Monica Airport (SMO). Regarding one element of SoCal Metroplex: Councilmember Mike Bonin, Concerned Residents Against Airport Pollution, and Mar Vista Community Council support the decoupling of the LAX / SMO flight path procedures and selecting a 250 degree heading departure from SMO to reduce air pollution impacts on North Westdale. Not all has gone smoothly around the country where NextGen has already been implemented. Complaints spiked 2,706 percent from Bay Area residents in the noisy flight paths, even though an August 2014 FAA review found new routes in the area “would not result in significant noise impacts.” Across the nation people have been sharing their concerns about the NextGen impacts that the FAA continues to ignore. Locally, Culver City, the Pacific Palisades, and a number of Mar Vista and North Westdale residents are unhappy with changes that they already notice. We will live with the changes that will be implemented. Now is the time to get involved. If the people lead, the leaders will follow. - Martin Rubin of Concerned Residents Against Airport Pollution