Date: Wed, Feb 25, 2009 at 1:11 PM
Subject: AQMD's Recent Letter
To: Jan Chatten-Brown
Dear Jan,
CAS is always concerned about the deficiency of SEIR approved by the City of Industry and friends of CAS have been very actively pursuing various public agencies' comments with regarding to the proposed Stadium project.
Recently, a friend of CAS, Howard Wang, pursued the road of AQMD. On Feb 6, 2009, he went to the AQMD board meeting and spoke in front the entire Board meeting during the oral communication. He was the first one to speak. As you can read from the attached AQMD public comments by Howard, he made a very powerful speech. His speech was immediately echoed by the Chairman of the Board of AQMD, Dr. Burke. Subsequently, the SCAQMD did issue comments and guidelines to the City of Industry's SEIR on Feb. 11, 2009 (see attached). We have read their letter and are thrilled by the AQMD's comments such as "As acknowledged in the Draft SEIR, air quality impacts from the proposed project are expected to exceed most of the SCAQMD's recommended regional significance thresholds for construction and operation by a wide margin and are also expected to exceed the localized thresholds for PM2.5 and PM10 by a relatively large margin during construction." ; However, it seems to us that the following concerns were not addressed by the SCAQMD sufficiently:
1. The lack of enough comments and demands from AQMD with regarding to the air quality impacts of the continuous operation of the stadium combined with the grid lock traffic.
2. The air quality effects of the proposed 'peak-time' GAS-FIRED Power Plant at the Bixby Rd.
3. The greenhouse effect of the 660 acres greenery turned into a 660 acres of asphalt area that has the potential of increasing carbon/dioxide emissions as well as overall temperature in our region.
We are wondering if the above concerns can be raised by you during future litigation. San Gabriel Valley has the worst air quality in the nation. Stadium certainly will not help improve that title. Howard Wang has done a great job in AQMD meeting. Now we are counting on you to protect us with the many serious issues of air quality.
Thank you for your continuing response to our concerns.
Sincerely,
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