The modular trailers arrived on schedule Wednesday, October 20th. Between then and November 1st, work will be done to ready them for the firefighters who are still scheduled to move back to Brisbane on Monday, November 1st. Brisbane fire crews will be stationed in Brisbane during the day, and relocate to Station 93 in Daly City (464 Martin St.) during the evening hours. If you need to get a hold of them at any time of day, please call the main Fire Dept. line, (415) 657-4300 as they are regularly checking messages left for them.
Wind speeds and patterns change throughout the year, resulting in pilots flying in and out of SFO to use alternate routes. This is of course due to safety reasons, where most planes need to reach an altitude of at least 400 ft. and be safely airborne and before making any turns. In times of low westerly winds, Runway 01, or a port departure, is used. This runway faces Oakland, so if a plane is headed to Southern California, Las Vegas, or a destination in Arizona, the plane would need to make a 270-degree turn in order to face south). In times of high westerly winds, Runway 28, or a Shoreline departure, is used. This runway faces northwest towards Pacifica so planes heading south would fly towards the ocean along the Gap (a natural dip in the ridgeline between SFO and Pacifica) before turning left to fly south. On west wind days, it's the planes that are headed to an eastern location that can cause noise problems in Brisbane. A properly-flown Shoreline departure would have planes remaining on the east side of Highway 101 before turning right towards Oakland. However, if this departure is poorly-flown, planes will fly too far northwest before turning right, and thus fly over Brisbane. (If hearing runway numbers is confusing, just remember that SFO is 10 degrees to the right from all cardinal compass directions. Therefore, Runway 01 is 10 degrees to the right of due North, Runway 10 is 10 degrees to the right of due East, or 100 degrees from due North, Runway 19 is 10 degrees to the right of due South, or 190 degrees from due North, and Runway 28 is 10 degrees to the right of due West, or 280 degrees from due North).
Residents can know that work is being done by both the City Council and City Management to make sure
Airport Noise Complaint
On Wednesday, October 20th, Councilmember Richardson and City Management met with SFO Airport Director John Martin and Dave Ong from the SFO Airport Aircraft Noise Abatement Office. The purpose of this meeting was to discuss the increase in overhead noise in
This past Wednesday, 13 Lipman students volunteered an hour of their time to help with weeding at the Community Park. They were supervised by Growing Green Hand's Tamberly Mott, volunteers Paul Bouscal and Marge Buschman, and of course, Public Works staff Linda Baston Conway and Joe Friars who were on-hand helping to lay down tarps and hand out gloves and tools.
Thank you to Brisbane Hardware for donating gloves to the kids! And, last but not least, THANK YOU to the students who pulled, heaved, and carried tarp-fuls of weeds to the PW truck for disposal. You all get an A for effort!
To see more pictures from the afternoon, click here to be taken to the City's photo set on Flickr.
Find out what's happening in Brisbane by checking out the STAR and City News! The STAR is published quarterly in-house and the City News comes out usually on a monthly basis. Printed copies of each are also available at City Hall.
One of the topics of discussion at this past Wednesdays's Open Space and Ecology Committee meeting was how individuals who may be doing improvements or remodels at their homes can take advantage of the tax incentives and rebates that are readily available, but may be expiring by December 31, 2010. Here are some resources that can help you to reduce your home's energy usage, and how you can qualify for the available tax incentives and rebates.
Learn more about these programs, tools, and offers at http://www.pge.com/, or contact PG&E's Smarter Energy Line at 1-800-933-9555 or e-mail smarter-energy@pge.com.