CALIFORNIA | LOCAL
November 21, 1999 | PATRICK McGREEVY
The Los Angeles City Council will meet near Van Nuys Airport on Tuesday to take up new rules for noisy jets at the San Fernando Valley airfield. Councilman Joel Wachs asked that the council meet at the Airtel Hotel to consider an ordinance that would ban additional Stage 2 jets, the noisiest aircraft allowed, and phase out Stage 2 jets already there.
CALIFORNIA | LOCAL
December 25, 1992
Let me add my voice to that of Ellen Bagelman (Letters to the Editor, Times Valley Edition, Dec. 7). It is hugely unfair and unjust to ask one segment of the community to bear the entire burden of airport noise without offering anything in return. I would go further and say that this compensation should come from the aircraft owners, the airport and the government--federal, state and local. The compensation could be, for example, funds for soundproofing homes and for loss of the peaceful enjoyment of one's property, and could also be in the form of lowered property taxes and/or income taxes, utility rates, etc. There are many possibilities.
NEWS
March 20, 1986
What the FAA knows about airports, you could stick into the "O" in politics. In Long Beach, they have handed an airport task force some federal money to prove in kindergarten formulas that adding more jetliners to Long Beach Airport will in fact make less noise. The formulas, with the help of bucket studies in cumulative arrangements over one year, prove that the noise you heard when that 727 cleared your house by 100 feet on takeoff was only an average, like the purr of a kitten, and you therefore have no reason to complain.
CALIFORNIA | LOCAL
May 23, 1993
Airport noise is increasing in the East Valley, a fact that anyone who lives here will attest to. More flights are being shifted here while Burbank Airport fights to gain ownership of the airspace over our homes. If the airport succeeds, this will ensure that Los Angeles, not Burbank, will continue to be the sole recipient of all the noise. This appalling unwillingness to take responsibility for at least part of the burden is an example of societal decay on a large scale.
CALIFORNIA | LOCAL
September 17, 1997 | DARRELL SATZMAN
In a victory for residents and business owners who have fought for years to impose tough noise restrictions at Van Nuys Airport, the Los Angeles City Council on Tuesday instructed the city attorney to prepare an ordinance limiting the number of noisy jets based at the airfield and expanding a noise curfew. "This is something we have all been fighting for for a long time," Councilman Joel Wachs said. "This will get the ball rolling as soon as possible."
CALIFORNIA | LOCAL
June 24, 1991 | ZION BANKS
Citizens and officials from Orange and Los Angeles counties will seek to modify new federal airport noise restrictions during a congressional subcommittee hearing today in Newport Beach. Reps. Barbara Boxer, (D-San Rafael), who chairs a House subcommittee on government operations, and Christopher Cox (R-Newport Beach) will take public testimony regarding the Airport Noise and Capacity Act of 1990.