IN THIS SECTION:
Stakeholder Engagement
SAN engages and collaborates with a wide variety of stakeholders, including residents, local government officials and business leaders, every day. Below are examples of these stakeholder groups:
Community-Based Groups
- Peninsula Community Planning Board
- Mission Hills Town Council
- Little Italy Association
- Friends of Downtown
- P3 People for Progress
- Uptown Planners
- Mission Hills BID
- Point Loma Rotary
- Old Town Community Planning Group
- Midway Planning Group
- Point Loma Association
Businesses
- Local/regional chambers of commerce
- San Diego Regional Economic Development Corporation
- Small business community
- Business partners
- Business community
- World Trade Center San Diego
- Tourism community
- Research and development community
- Airport-adjacent businesses
- Ground Transportation Operators
Government: Local/Regional
- City of San Diego
- Other San Diego County cities
- San Diego Metropolitan Transit System
- Port of San Diego
- Harbor Police
- San Diego Association of Governments
- County of San Diego
- North County Transit District
- Local/regional elected officials
Government: Federal
- Federal Aviation Administration
- Transportation Security Administration
- Other federal agencies
- Federal legislative bodies
- U.S. Marine Corps
- U.S. Navy
- Military families
- Federal elected officials
Tenants
- Airlines
- Concessions
- Fixed-base operator
- Fuel farm operator
- USO
- Rental car operators
- Other airport tenants
Organizational
- Airport Authority Board
- Airport Authority executive management
- Airport Authority staff
- Airport employees
- Labor unions
- Volunteer Airport Ambassadors
Public
- General public
- Traveling public
- Passengers
- Other airport users
- Airport-adjacent residents
Public Participation Committees
- Airport Authority Advisory Committee
- Art Advisory Committee
- Airport Land Use Compatibility Plan Technical Advisory Group
- Airport Noise Advisory Committee
Government: State
- State of California
- California Coastal Commission
- California Department of Transportation
- Other state regulatory agencies
- State elected officials
Environmental Interest Groups
- Nonprofit environmental groups
- Grassroots citizen groups
- Local and regional groups
Stakeholders and other members of the public are welcome to address the Airport Authority Board during the public comment period at any of its public meetings. All Board, Board Committee and Advisory Committee meetings are open to the public, with public comment periods. Airport Authority Board member contact information is also available on the website at www.san.org.
For all major development projects, the Airport Authority follows state and federal Environmental Impact Report and Environmental Impact Statement guidelines, which includes extensive public comment and public participation requirements.
Materiality Determination
In the 2015-16 timeframe, the Airport Authority's Sustainability Report team provided an opportunity to discuss and capture employees' perspectives on how the Airport Authority's organizational values support progress towards addressing the 20 material issues identified in the report.
In addition to Authority staff, groups surveyed to determine the issues that were most material to the airport included public/passengers, business partners, and the Authority Advisory Committee. Employee and business partner surveys were typically distributed to groups after in-person introductory presentations. Survey responses were anonymous.
The Airport Authority defines materiality based on the priority of each aspect to the business, our stakeholders, and our customers. The Airport Authority's supply chain includes facility tenants along with the goods and services needed for airport operations and construction activity. The Sustainability Report generally addresses Airport Authority activities and does not address the activities of Airport Authority suppliers, tenants, or contractors except where noted.
The matrix depicted below represents organizational values as measured in 2015-16. The Airport Authority intends to issue a new survey to internal and external audiences in the near future to reflect a changing airport environment.
As always, employees are encouraged to incorporate any of the 20 material issues, if applicable, into their performance goals and work priorities throughout the year.
