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We fully support the military at March and have not complained about civilian flights or military flights in order to protect the base from future closure. Our position has always been that civilian cargo flights need to honor the Good Neighbor Policy. March has always honored their Good Neighbor Policy of no non-mission critical flights between 10 PM and 7 AM. Given the increase in noise and traffic and air pollution and warehouses in the area we can no longer stay silent. We cannot afford to have one more civilian cargo plane flying over our homes and schools. We are no longer calling for a curfew. We insist that any new operations authorized at March be for military use only.

The distinctive bowl-shape of Inland geographies captures pollutants, leading to cardiac, respiratory, and reproductive health impacts as well as cancers. Over the past 22 years, state and federal air quality regulations have progressed with reducing large particulate matter and oxides of nitrogen (NOx) emissions. However, with the recent exponential increase in warehouses in the Inland Empire, decades of effort are becoming undermined as greenhouse gases (GHG) climb, and NOx, particulate matter (PM), and ozone increase.

Projects to Improve our Economy & Environment

CAREE Park at March JPA

Curfew at March Inland Port Airport

In 2003 CAREE and CCAEJ signed a settlement agreement with March JPA and their developer that requires a 48-60 acre sports park, police substation site and fire station site. March JPA has not fulfilled their agreement and the community is still waiting for the amenities promised 20+ years ago.

Curfew at March Inland Port Airport

March Inland Port Airport is a joint use facility with March Air Reserve Base. The Air Force has always had a Good Neighbor Policy of no non-mission critical flights from 10 PM to 7 AM so our families and children can sleep. Civilian flights need to honor the Good Neighbor Curfew.

Logistics Impacts

Curfew at March Inland Port Airport

Logistics Impacts

Mead Valley has been inundated with large industrial warehouses and excessive truck traffic and noise and pollution in a community with already terrible unhealthy air quality. Stay tuned for updates once we have a date for the hearing at the Riverside County Board of Supervisors meeting.

The Impacts of Increased Air Cargo Operations

"Ellen Reese, UCR’s faculty co-director of the Inland Empire Labor and Community Center and one of the lead researchers in the study, said the TDL sector is one of the top employing industries in the region, but is one that has contributed to air pollution and low-wage, unsafe, and insecure jobs.

“Our report documents these problems, the impacts of increasing workplace automation, and discusses potential strategies — for workers, community members, workforce developers, and policy-makers — to promote greater equity and environmental sustainability in the TDL sector and in our regional economy more generally,” said Reese, co-author of the book, “Unsustainable: Amazon, Warehousing, and the Politics of Exploitation” (UC Press, 2023).

The report provides new research findings that highlight the lack of living wages among truck drivers and blue-collar warehouse workers in the TDL sector. Laborers and stockers and order fillers, for example, are among the lowest paid positions, receiving a median salary of just over $25,000 per year, while packers and packagers receive a median annual salary of just over $23,000 per year. "

The DHL Experience:

“Before the DHL cargo port was approved, a developer and top managers with the March Joint Powers Authority resisted releasing a noise study that determined hundreds of Riverside residents could be awakened each night by DHL planes, a new report shows”

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1JZqff5vKzfAoldcsDnmEmipP-kcIm56a/view?usp=drive_link

“DHL cargo planes will fly over two Riverside neighborhoods, contrary to promises from a private developer and elected officials that those areas would be off-limits, local and federal officials confirmed Monday.”

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1dn9r8rX0undvRjpKIAyD4Jh3n07sJULD/view?usp=drive_link

Full investigative report conducted by attorney Leonard Gumport:

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1UvQxcL8fscGDxugKw1hqv7xCiTbAYx79/view?usp=drive_link

Do Accidents Happen at Airports? YES!

abc7.com/riverside-plane-crash-fighter-jet-f-16-march-air-reserve-base/5305097/

Amazon uses Hawaiian Air to Move Cargo

finance.yahoo.com/news/hawaiian-airlines-slowly-adds-freighters-190920292.html

Hawaiian Airlines has commenced operating a second Airbus A330-300 cargo jet for Amazon on a new route between New York’s JFK airport and the retail behemoth’s West Coast air logistics hub in San Bernardino, California, the company reported in quarterly earnings Tuesday.

Under a transportation services agreement that kicked in last year, Amazon (NASDAQ: AMZN) leases the aircraft from a dealer and transfers them to Hawaiian Airlines (NASDAQ: HA) to fly and provide routine maintenance. Hawaiian, which is branching out to all-cargo operations for the first time, began commercial revenue service for Amazon in early October on a route connecting San Bernardino with Amazon Air’s superhub at Cincinnati/Northern Kentucky International Airport (CVG).

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