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Airport Commission holds public hearing Monday evening
By RYAN HICKMAN
The city of Houston’s Airport Commission will hold its second public hearing Monday evening and is still on a loose timeline for the plan to hash out compatible land use regulations for Bush Intercontinental Airport.
The public hearing will be held Monday, Sept. 29 at 6 p.m. on the third floor in General Assembly Area B of the George R. Brown Convention Center, 1001 Avenida de las Americas, in Houston.
The public is encouraged to speak before the commission, which will be crafting compatible land use regulations for the city’s airports after a call it from the Federal Aviation Administration, by registering on a form at the entrance of the meeting. Each speaker is allowed two minutes.
The land use regulations tentatively include a tier system that maps out what can and cannot be developed and redeveloped in the future throughout areas around IAH as a result of the FAA’s insistence that Houston restricts “the use of land adjacent to or near the airport.”
Suzy Hartgrove, spokeswoman for Houston’s Planning Commission, which makes up the majority of the Airport Commission, said that after the second public hearing the commission will decide whether or not to conduct a third event for residents to provide feedback.
She also said that there is no set date for the commission to produce a plan for Houston City Council, the body that officially signs off on the land use regulations before they go to the FAA.
Humble’s city manager Darrell Boeske, who sits on the Airport Commission, said he thinks the process might go into November and Hargrove said that the hope is to have the plan to City Council by the end of 2008.
Check back with The Observer’s website next week for full details from the second public hearing.
The public hearing will be held Monday, Sept. 29 at 6 p.m. on the third floor in General Assembly Area B of the George R. Brown Convention Center, 1001 Avenida de las Americas, in Houston.
The public is encouraged to speak before the commission, which will be crafting compatible land use regulations for the city’s airports after a call it from the Federal Aviation Administration, by registering on a form at the entrance of the meeting. Each speaker is allowed two minutes.
The land use regulations tentatively include a tier system that maps out what can and cannot be developed and redeveloped in the future throughout areas around IAH as a result of the FAA’s insistence that Houston restricts “the use of land adjacent to or near the airport.”
Suzy Hartgrove, spokeswoman for Houston’s Planning Commission, which makes up the majority of the Airport Commission, said that after the second public hearing the commission will decide whether or not to conduct a third event for residents to provide feedback.
She also said that there is no set date for the commission to produce a plan for Houston City Council, the body that officially signs off on the land use regulations before they go to the FAA.
Humble’s city manager Darrell Boeske, who sits on the Airport Commission, said he thinks the process might go into November and Hargrove said that the hope is to have the plan to City Council by the end of 2008.
Check back with The Observer’s website next week for full details from the second public hearing.
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