VAN NUYS : Panel Studies Limits on Aircraft Noise
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The Los Angeles Board of Airport Commissioners will meet at Van Nuys Airport on Monday to discuss adopting aircraft noise regulations.
One of the regulations to be considered was developed by a panel of residents, pilots and airport officials. It would request that pilots ease up on thrust during takeoffs and would expand by one hour--to 10 p.m.-- a nighttime ban on departures by planes generating 74 or more decibels of noise on takeoff.
The second proposal, which was tentatively endorsed in June by the airport commissioners, would phase out over a six-year period the noisiest jets using the airport. By 1998, all planes rated by the Federal Aviation Administration as producing 77 decibels of noise on takeoff would be banned.
The airport commissioners will also receive a staff update on the drafting of a master plan to outline all future development in the airport. The airport’s current development plan is a combination of zoning regulations contained in five separate community development plans. Critics of the airport say a master plan is needed to set limits on future airport growth.
The meeting will be held at the Airtel Plaza Hotel, 7277 Valjean Ave., Van Nuys at 6:30 p.m.
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