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UpfrontLocal news, information and analysis Plane noise drives city to seek seat on FAA committee Federal Aviation Administration launches group ties and members of the grass- over their heads. very least give Palo Alto some- roots group Sky Posse, which has Formation of the FAA Select thing the city has been coveting to give local officials a forum to review been leading the local effort to Committee is the first substan- for well over a year: a seat at a new proposals for flight paths abate airplane noise. tive action that the federal agency regional table. by Gennady Sheyner The issue became urgent in the has undertaken since November, The city had attempted in past year after the FAA imple- when it agreed to take a fresh 2014 to join the SFO Commu- purred by the outrage over voice in future negotiations over mented its Next Generation Air look at flight speeds, altitudes nity Roundtable, a coalition of airplane noise of residents plane routes and flight altitudes. Transportation System (Next- and waypoint locations as part of stakeholders from San Francisco S of Palo Alto and surround- The FAA announced the new Gen) program last March. The a new “three-phased initiative.” and San Mateo County cities that ing communities, the Federal committee at a meeting Monday program concentrated flights While it remains to be seen work on issues involving San Aviation Administration (FAA) in Los Altos, which involved within particular corridors, cre- whether the group will wield any Francisco Airport, but its request has agreed to form a committee elected leaders from Santa Clara, ating what some residents have actual influence over the federal aimed at giving critics a louder San Mateo and Santa Cruz coun- described as “super-highways” agency, its creation will at the (continued on page 14) TRANSPORTATION Court ruling gives big boost to high-speed rail Judge rejects lawsuit from Central Valley that sought to stop controversial project by Gennady Sheyner alifornia’s planned high- ect, has not yet provided an analy- speed rail system surged sis of the trip time from San Jose to Cpast a major legal obstacle the San Francisco Transbay Termi- this week when a Sacramento Su- nal, Kenny noted. Its analysis relies perior Court judge tossed out a on San Francisco’s Caltrain station long-simmering lawsuit from the at 4th and King streets, which is Central Valley. about 1.3 miles south of Transbay Veronica Weber The 2011 suit by John Tos, Terminal. Nor has it shown that it Aaron Fukuda and the County can achieve a five-minute headway of Kings maintained that the rail — the amount of time between plan violates the provisions of trains — as mandated by law. Field of greens Proposition 1A, a 2008 state bond However, Kenny wrote, the A horse at Pagemill Pastures nibbles on grass as the sun goes down. measure that allocated $9.95 bil- rail authority “may be able to ac- lion for the San Francisco-to-Los complish these objectives at some Angeles railroad line. point in the future.” He called By revising the design of the sys- high-speed rail an “ongoing, dy- EDUCATION tem so that high-speed rail would namic, changing project” and con- share a set of tracks with Caltrain curred with a recent ruling from along the Peninsula, the agency the state Court of Appeal, which Painting project to ‘transform’ has strayed from the plans that found that because the project is in were presented to voters in 2008, flux, it cannot determine whether attorneys for the plaintiffs argued the project would meet the re- Gunn High School during a three-day hearing in Sac- quirements of the 2008 bond act. ramento in February. The initial “There is no evidence currently New color scheme supported by Palo Alto students, staff and parents plan called for four railroad tracks before the Court that the blended by Elena Kadvany between San Francisco and San system will not comply with the Jose. bond act system requirements,” n surveys and focus groups the Arastradero Road campus. put up a series of interactive post- The change, the plaintiffs have Kenny wrote in his ruling. “Al- conducted by a Palo Alto The most important part of the ers around the school (one had a argued, is significant because with though Plaintiffs have raised com- I architecture firm this year, color scheme, though, wasn’t the color wheel and asked students the blended system, trains would pelling questions about potential Gunn High School students said selected hues but the process, to place dot-stickers on the colors not be able to meet the promised future compliance, the Authority their campus is big, confus- which sought input from the stu- they preferred; another had a map goal of travel from San Francisco has not yet submitted a funding ing and hard to navigate, with a dents themselves. of the school and asked “What is a to Los Angeles in two hours and plan seeking to expend bond act mostly dark-brown color scheme The idea to repaint the school good place for murals/public art?”), 40 minutes. This would make the funds. Thus, the issue of the proj- they described as “dull,” “tired,” was first proposed by the Gunn tested different colors around cam- rail line ineligible for bond funds, ect’s compliance with the bond “dreary” and “uninspired.” Advisory Committee in 2013. In pus and met with Gunn’s student which would in turn make it ineli- act is not ripe for review.” What they wanted, they said, December, the school’s site council government many times. They also gible for federal funds, which are There are, as of today, Kenny were colors that would make selected Palo Alto-based Architar- created a website to document their contingent on state money.