SFO planning manager briefs Millbrae council on Airport Development Plan; presentation informational only

San Francisco International Airport officials briefed the Millbrae City Council on their Airport Development Plan (ADP) during the Sept. 23 meeting, describing a package of terminal and landside projects intended to accommodate future passenger demand within the airport’s existing runway layout. Christopher de Parma, acting airport planning manager at San Francisco International Airport, told the council the presentation was “informational only.”

The ADP would add an all-airside boarding concourse (referred to in SFO materials as Boarding Area H) with multiple wide-body contact gates, redevelop the central garage into a multimodal center with consolidated bus and curb operations, expand a consolidated rental-car center and increase air-train capacity and maintenance storage. De Parma said the program is designed to match terminal and landside capacity to the airport’s existing runway system and “does not change runway configurations or flight paths.” He also said SFO projects are funded from airport sources and must meet federal funding rules, meaning the funding structure does not call on San Mateo County general revenues.

Why it matters: Millbrae sits adjacent to SFO and neighbors raised questions during and after the presentation about traffic staging, vehicle queuing on Millbrae Avenue, construction staging and noise. Council members pressed airport staff on how the ADP would affect ride-hailing…