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Residents urge air‑quality and noise monitoring, question VMT metric for proposed housing
Summary
Public commenters asked the city to evaluate particulate road dust, idling-related emissions under the vehicle‑miles‑traveled metric, and aircraft noise/flight hazards near JFTB as part of the draft EIR review.
At the June 5 meeting, residents and a councilmember asked the city to include more focused air‑quality and noise monitoring and to scrutinize the use of vehicle‑miles‑traveled (VMT) as an impact metric.
Councilwoman Patty Sinegal said recent research on brake and tire particulates raises local health concerns and questioned the VMT approach, telling the board that “if they're less (VMT) but you're idling longer, it's okay… I…
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