Important BUR Noise Meetings Next Thursday (5/22)
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IMPORTANT BUR NOISE MEETINGS NEXT THURSDAY, MAY 22
Please attend and make a public comment at the Citizen's Advisory Committee meeting and attend Open House #2 regarding Hollywood Burbank Airport (BUR) Noise Study's Draft Noise Exposure Map:
Third Citizen's Advisory Committee Meeting
Thursday, May 22 -- 4:00 p.m. to 6:00 p.m.
Public comment at beginning of meeting
Open House #2
Thursday, May 22 -- 6:30 p.m. to 8:30 p.m.
Burbank Elks Lodge
Located behind the Public Storage facility
2232 N. Hollywood Way
Burbank, CA 91505
Free parking
WHY IT MATTERS / SUGGESTED COMMENTS
Your active participation makes a difference and matters. Because you showed up, BUR added 3 reps from L.A. to the Citizen's Advisory Committee.
As part of the ongoing Noise Study, BUR has released the draft Noise Exposure Map (Noise Map). The Noise Map defines the geographic boundaries for the Study's Noise Compatibility Program (NCP). The NCP area is where BUR will make recommendations to the FAA to improve existing and future noise impacts.
The Noise Map includes only the immediate vicinity of the airport for noise relief:
The Noise Study uses various data inputs and noise metrics to complete this map, including noise complaints. The noise complaints reach across a far broader area, with most complaints from Studio City and Sherman Oaks.
Talking points for Citizen's Advisory Committee meeting:
BUR participated in a Task Force with stakeholders from throughout the Valley that made recommendations, including this Noise Study, to the FAA based on a sudden onslaught of noise complaints following flight path changes at BUR. While the draft map documents show nearly all noise complaints are from Studio City and Sherman Oaks, the resulting Noise Compatibility Program from this draft map will not address those complaints.
Recommendation 14 from the Task Force was to maintain and update the Noise Exposure Map and Noise Compatibility Program at BUR, including specifically to consider preferential runway use programs to determine whether a more northerly flow provides noise benefits. The draft Noise Map shows that 94% of jets depart south and that a larger area south of the airport bears concentrated noise impacts. The map should be updated and expanded as needed so that the NCP achieves the Task Force objective.
Based on the Task Force recommendation, the Noise Compatibility Program at BUR is also supposed to analyze Runway 33 arrivals to limit the use of the wind arrival flight path over the Santa Monica Mountains. The map should be updated and expanded as needed so that the NCP achieves this objective.
I understand that there are certain FAA rules about the data components and how the map is prepared, but the draft map and resulting NCP do not respect the intention of the Noise Study Recommendations of the Task Force. Please discuss this with the FAA. The draft map must be updated and expanded to provide relief to the known areas that are suffering from flight path changes, and which have filed over 4 million noise complaints.
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