The Bill was intended to strengthen the airport preservation law as currently written in the Public Utilities Code. This last provision was intended to eliminate a flaw in the current law that allows a city council person or a member of the county supervisors with no aviation knowledge to be substituted for a person with aviation expertise. The Bill did not pass. It was strenuously opposed by lobbyists for the League of Cities, the San Diego Association of Governments and the City of Concord. Lobbyists are hired guns that effectively make up a de facto third branch of the California Legislature.
Local governments can use taxpayer money to hire squadrons of lobbyists to do their bidding.
The Airport Land Use Planning Handbook is by law used by airport land use commissions when reviewing projects near airports. A weak argument was made by city lobbyists that it would result in more planning cost for local governments. This makes no sense. The answer is obvious. They do not wish to relinquish the power of having an elected official on the commission.