General Plan Update - City of Inglewood

2.3 Economic Trends and Conditions
• The environmental analysis of the LAX Master Plan 2000 Draft EIS/EIR resulted
in the formulation of Alternative D that was presented and evaluated in the 2003
LAX Master Plan Addendum and 2003 Supplement to the Draft EIS/EIR.
• Alternative D was a new alternative in response to public comment on Master Plan
Alternatives A,B,C and the No Action/No Project Alternative.
• Alternative D was developed to offer a regional airport development alternative for
LAX. It would be designed to serve approximately 78 million annual passengers
which is similar to the activity level identified in the scenario adopted by SCAG for
LAX. It would encourage other airports in the region to develop facilities to
accommodate regional demand beyond the level served at LAX.
• Alternative D is intended to respond to increased security threats with the objective
of providing a facility that can continue to operate under the highest security levels
with minimal impacts to the passenger processing experience.
• The ground access network would be redeveloped to limit vehicle access to the
central terminal area (CTA) and to remove vehicle parking from the area. The CTA
would be accessed via the Landside Automated People Mover (APM) system.
• Some of the other components of Alternative D include: four new passenger
terminals, new aircraft rescue and firefighting facilities, parallel taxiways between
the runways on the north and south airfields to reduce the potential for runway
incursions and airfield reconfigurations to provide unrestricted movement for New
Large Aircraft (NLA). Alternative D also includes a new Ground Transportation
Center (GTC) to improve the landside level of service at LAX, a Consolidated
Rental Car Facility and an Intermodal Transportation Center.
• The LAX Master Plan Stipulated Settlement was approved by Mayor Villaraigosa
and the Los Angeles City Council in early 2006 resulting in an historic settlement of
lawsuits filed against the LAX Master Plan. It was also approved by other cities
including the City of Inglewood.
• The settlement allows LAWA to begin construction on the LAX South Airfield
Improvement Project and to develop new plans for LAX consistent with the
Mayor’s vision for the regional redistribution of aviation demand.
• The settlement will create a community-based planning process to revisit and
potentially replace controversial “yellow light” projects such as the Manchester
Square Ground Transportation Center.
Tourism and Lodging
• The majority of the hotels and motels in Inglewood serve tourists and business
travelers from Los Angeles International Airport.
• The hotels and motels are primarily located along Century Boulevard, as well as
Manchester Avenue and the Imperial Highway.
• As shown in Table 2.3-28, the City of Inglewood generated about $1.84 million in
transient occupancy tax revenue for 2002-2003. Of the South Bay Cities, Torrance
generated the most amount of transient occupancy tax revenue with about $5.52
million.
City of Inglewood General Plan Update Technical Background Report
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