SAN JOSE, CA—City officials cleared the runway for a corporate jet center at the Mineta San Jose International Airport—a move that will mostly benefit executives with Google and other Silicon Valley tech companies.
The city coucil voted 10-1 Tuesday night to approved a 50-year lease agreement with Signature Flight Services which will build an $82 million facility on the west side of the airport, according to report in the San Jose Mercury News. The deal includes no curfew provisions, which had been discussed during the approval process.
Several residents who live near the airport's flight path urged the council to reconsider the project by adding back the extra curfew provision, increasing the curfew violation fines, or reducing the length of the lease, the paper reported.
Plans call for seven hangars for corporate jets, with five of those hangars to be used by Blue City Holdings, its primary tenant. That company will manage aircraft for Google executives, whose private jets are now parked at Moffett Field, where their lease will expire next year.
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