2018-09-12 ARC PacketCITY OF MENDOTA HEIGHTS
AIRPORT RELATIONS COMMISSION
September 12, 2018
7:00 p.m.
City of Mendota Heights- 1101 Victoria Curve
1. Call to Order
2. Roll Call
3. Approval of Minutes
a. Approval of Minutes of the June 20, 2018 Meeting
4. Unfinished and New Business
a. July 18, 2018 NOC Committee Meeting Review—Bylaw Changes
b. Discussion of Data Collection—12L Departure Modification/Crossing in the Corridor Procedures
c. Review of Airport Operational Statistics (link: https://www.macenvironment.org/reports/)
i. Complaint Information
ii. Runway Use
iii. Turboprop Charts
iv. Noise Monitor Charts
5. Acknowledge Receipt of Various Reports/Correspondence:
a. News Articles
6. Upcoming Meetings
a. City Council Meeting 09/17/2018 7:00 pm (note date change)
b. NOC Meeting 09/19/2018 1:30 pm
c. Comp Plan Open House 09/25/2018 4:30-7:30 pm
d. Comp Plan Public Hearing 09/25/2018 7:00 pm
e. Planning Commission Meeting 09/25/2018 7:00 pm
7. Public Comments
8. Commissioner Comments
9. Adjourn
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CITY OF MENDOTA HEIGHTS
DAKOTA COUNTY, MINNESOTA
AIRPORT RELATIONS COMMISSION MINUTES
June 20, 2018
The regular meeting of the Mendota Heights Airport Relations Commission was held on
Wednesday, June 20, 2018, at Mendota Heights City Hall.
1.Call to Order
Chair Sloan called the meeting to order at 7:00 pm.
2.Roll Call
The following commissioners were present: David Sloan, Arvind Sharma, Jim Neuharth, Sally
Lorberbaum, Kevin Byrnes, and Gina Norling. Absent: William Dunn.
Also present: Assistant City Administrator Cheryl Jacobson, Dana Nelson, Manager of Noise,
Environment and Planning with MAC; Kurt Mara, Traffic Management Officer, FAA; Michele
Sand, FAA.
3.Approval of Minutes
a.Approval of Minutes from the April 18, 2018 Meeting
Motion by Neuharth/Second by Sharma to approve the minutes of the April 18, 2018 ARC
meeting, with a noted addition of “mean value” to the discussion of turboprop data
charting. Motion carried 4-0; Norling and Lorberbaum abstained.
b. Approval of Minutes from the May 22, 2018 Meeting
Motion by Neuharth/Second by Norling to approve the minutes of the May 22, 2018
meeting. Motion carried 6-0.
4.Unfinished and New Business
a. Follow-up Discussion on 12L Departure proposal
Commissioner Norling summarized the NOC meeting presentation regarding the 12L
Departure proposal, the meeting outcome and a follow-up technical meeting and
tower tour with FAA staff. Dana Nelson of MAC provided background on the NOC
consideration of the proposal and noted that the FAA was provided and reviewed
the ARC’s proposal presentation.
Kurt Mara and Michelle Sand of the FAA noted that the arrival and departure
patterns at MSP are distinct and that controllers must ensure that there is some
form of separation between aircraft. FAA staff noted that a solution to address the
12L request is to increase, as much as practical, the use of crossing in the corridor
procedures.
Michele Sand stated that the FAA had already re-briefed Controllers and reminded
them about the crossing procedures. Sand also noted that the FAA is encouraging
Controllers to find time throughout the day when following the Crossing-in-the
Corridor procedures is better. But further noted, that use is up to the Controller.
Item# 3a
Discussion regarding rethinking the Mendota Heights proposal was had. Suggestions
included modification of operating procedures; increasing use of desired tracks
during low to mid demand periods; addressing increased use of tracks during high
demand periods; and a trial period during non-high demand times. The group
noted that the greatest gains is by using crossing in the corridor procedures.
Other items noted by MAC staff included the launch of a new flight tracker which
will be mobile friendly. Staff also noted upcoming listening sessions to be held on
July 17 and August 27. Nelson stated that the September 19 NOC meeting will
include a State of the Airport presentation by Brian Rykes.
b. Review of Airport Operational Statistics
i. Complaint Information. Complaint charts were reviewed. There were no
notable changes.
ii. Runway Use. Runway use charts were reviewed. There were no notable
changes.
iii. Noise Monitoring. Noise monitoring charts were not available for review.
iv. Turboprop. Data was received from Brad Juffer of MAC. Data will be
provided by Neuharth to Byrnes. Byrnes will create charts.
5. Acknowledge Receipt of Various Reports/Correspondence
Monthly news articles were reviewed.
6. Upcoming Meetings
7. Public Comments
No public comments were received.
8. Commissioner Comments
Commissioner Byrnes asked about disclosures for homes that have been received noise
mitigation and whether or not disclosure was required. The group noted that such
disclosure would be city code related.
A suggestion was made to monitor the number of flights in the 120 heading each month for
review of the crossing in the corridor procedures.
9. Adjourn
The meeting was adjourned at 8:38 PM
Minutes Taken By:
Cheryl Jacobson
Assistant City Administrator
MEMORANDUM
TO: MSP Noise Oversight Committee (NOC)
FROM: Dana Nelson, Manager—Noise, Environment & Planning
SUBJECT: NOC BYLAW MODIFICATIONS TO FACILITATE GREATER CITIZEN
INPUT
D ATE: July 3, 2018
At the May 16, 2018 NOC meeting, the Committee reviewed a list of recommendations from the
NOC Bylaw Review Subcommittee. The Subcommittee was developed as a result of requests
made by the MSP FairSkies Coalition to “Enhance the NOC with greater stakeholder (citizen)
representation”. During the January 24, 2018 NOC meeting, Committee members recognized the
importance of a balanced forum for discussing aircraft noise issues at MSP and agreed that the
membership of the NOC should contain six industry representatives and six community
representatives. The Committee did, however, recognize the opportunity to review past practices
and its Bylaws in an effort to facilitate greater citizen input during meetings and thus established
the NOC Bylaw Review Subcommittee.
The NOC Bylaw Review Subcommittee was created in January 2018 and met on two occasions
in 2018. During these meetings, the Subcommittee discussed NOC Bylaws ARTICLE VIII,
Committee Meetings and developed the following list of recommended changes. Draft redline
edits to the NOC Bylaws consistent with these recommendations are provided in Attachment 1.
Subsection 4 - time and location of NOC meetings. The following ideas were discussed and
received support from the Subcommittee:
•NOC members are strongly suggested to attend Listening Sessions when able.
•Hold one evening meeting by the NOC each year (suggested November for approval
of the Work Plan).
•Changing the time and location of the NOC meetings should be further evaluated in
the future
The Subcommittee members recommend that ARTICLE VIII, Sections 1 and 4 of the Bylaws be
amended, as shown in Attachment 1, to allow the ability to have NOC meetings during the
evening.
Subsection 5 – Items added to future agendas. The following ideas were discussed and
received support from the Subcommittee:
•Due to the rigid and lengthy process for adding agenda items to NOC meeting
agendas, the Subcommittee would like to allow some flexibility for the Co-Chairs to
add items to upcoming meetings at their discretion.
ITEM 3
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Item# 4a
The Subcommittee members recommend that ARTICLE VIII, Section 5 of the Bylaws be
amended, as shown in Attachment 1, to allow for items to be added to future NOC agendas by
mutual consent of the NOC Co-Chairpersons.
Subsection 6 – Public comment period at NOC meetings. The following ideas were discussed
and received support from the Subcommittee:
• Remove the requirement in the Bylaws to have speakers sponsored by two (2)
members of the Committee.
• Model the public comment period after “Citizens to be Heard” at city meetings using “I
wish to speak” cards for individuals wishing to make a comment, then the acting
Chairperson can make a final request for those wishing to speak who did not fill out a
card.
• Move the comment period on the agenda to after the monthly operations update report,
however keep this specificity out of the Bylaws to allow flexibility on the agenda
structure.
• The time for the public comment period should be extended from the current fifteen
(15) minutes to twenty (20) minutes with the ability to change it at the meeting by
majority vote.
• The time limit for individual speakers should continue to be three (3) minutes, but there
are some situations where the acting chairperson may need to allow additional time
and that ability should be reflected in the Bylaws.
• The NOC members should have the ability to ask clarifying questions of the speaker,
if necessary. (This would not be specified in a change to the Bylaws).
• MAC Staff should provide the Co-Chairs with a prepared script to open up the public
comment period of the meeting. The script would cover the public comment guidelines,
such as speaking into the microphone, stating name and address, the speaker’s
comment time, and what the Committee does with comments. (This would not be
specified in a change to the Bylaws).
• A section on the macnoise.com website should be created to provide public comment
period guidelines at NOC meetings so individuals wishing to speak know what to
expect. This would include the steps individuals wishing to speak should go through
to provide comment, what they can expect at the meeting, and what the Committee
does with comments. (This would not be specified in a change to the Bylaws).
The Subcommittee members recommend that ARTICLE VIII, Section 6 of the Bylaws be
amended, as shown in Attachment 1, to reflect the first five bullet points above for public comment
during NOC meetings. The last three bullet points would not need a change to the Bylaws.
At the July 18, 2018 NOC meeting, the following requested action will be before the Committee.
COMMITTEE ACTION REQUESTED
CONSIDER APPROVAL OF THE MODIFICATIONS TO THE NOC BYLAWS CONSISTENT
WITH THE NOC BYLAW SUBCOMMITTEE RECOMMENDATIONS, AS SHOWN IN
ATTACHMENT 1.
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DATE: September 12, 2018
TO: Airport Relations Commission
SUBJECT: Discussion of Data Collection –
12L Departure Modification/Crossing in the Corridor Procedures
Per the Commission’s discussion with the FAA and MAC regarding the 12L Departure
Modification proposal, there are a couple of data items that Commissioner Norling is interested
in tracking.
The FAA has agreed to train Controllers in using the crossing in the corridor procedure during
daytime hours. In order to assess how training is impacting change, tracking of the following data
on a monthly basis is proposed:
(1) 120 degree heading percent utilization off of 12L, 12R, and 17
(2) Departures broken down into average hourly traffic demand
Item# 4b
Complaints by Location—By Month
(2017, 2018)
2017 Mpls Eagan Edina MH Blmgtn
January 92 26 11 11 7
February 143 30 23 14 7
March 160 37 23 17 13
April 183 45 40 20 11
May 203 54 32 18 17
June 285 49 31 16 16
July 286 65 32 31 10
August 286 77 36 19 19
September 290 62 21 13 9
October 151 40 16 14 6
November 111 31 13 8 5
December 84 24 12 5 6
2018 Mpls Eagan Edina MH Blmgtn
January 84 21 10 7 5
February 86 21 18 7 3
March 102 27 16 10 5
April 120 31 10 12 8
May 216 45 15 19 14
June 207 83 20 23 11
July 270 64 50 22 13
August
September
October
November
December
Location = Complainants
Percent of All Departures by Location
(2017, 2018)
2017
Mpls/
Richfield
30R
Eagan
12R
Edina
30L
MH
12L
Blmgtn
17
January 24% 6% 32% 10% 28%
February 25% 4% 33% 9% 30%
March 19% 8% 30% 14% 29%
April 23% 9% 29% 14% 25%
May 27% 6% 30% 12% 27%
June 26% 5% 28% 12% 29%
July 17% 7% 21% 19% 37%
August 24% 5% 23% 14% 34%
September 20% 7% 18% 16% 39%
October 23% 4% 26% 14% 33%
November 23% 4% 25% 12% 36%
December 29% 5% 33% 8% 26%
2018
Mpls/
Richfield
30R
Eagan
12R
Edina
30L
MH
12L
Blmgtn
17
January 26% 4% 30% 8% 31%
February 23% 5% 29% 10% 33%
March 18% 9% 24% 15% 35%
April 25% 6% 28% 11% 27%
May 20% 5% 17% 17% 41%
June 11% 8% 10% 24% 46%
July 22% 22% 26% 16% 14%
August
September
October
November
December
Item# 4c.i
285
49 31 16
16207
83 20 23 11
26%
5%
28%
12%
29%
11%8%
10%
24%
46%
0%
5%
10%
15%
20%
25%
30%
35%
40%
45%
50%
0
50
100
150
200
250
300
Mpls Eagan Edina MH Blmgtn Percent of All DeparturesNumber of LocationsLocation
June Complaints by Location and Departures By Location
2017 2018
City June Complaints June Night Departures
2017 2018 2017 2018
Minneapolis 6,563 7,418 88 32
Eagan 2,034 2,704 147 270
Edina 181 69 188 73
Mendota Heights 223 294 97 155
Bloomington 104 246 76 27
Total 9,105 10,731 596 557
286
65
32 31 10
270
64
50 22 13
17%
7%
21%19%
37%
22%
22%
26%
16%14%
0%
5%
10%
15%
20%
25%
30%
35%
40%
0
50
100
150
200
250
300
350
Mpls Eagan Edina MH Blmgtn Percent of All DeparturesNumber of LocationsLocation
July Complaints by Location and Departures By Location
2017 2018
City July Complaints July Night Departures
2017 2018 2017 2018
Minneapolis 7,352 7,688 71 156
Eagan 2,528 1,851 233 154
Edina 188 334 147 180
Mendota Heights 408 210 147 113
Bloomington 78 228 61 95
Total 10,554 10,311 659 698
Data used for UCL calculation
January 2009 through December 2013
Mean: 12.4
St Dev: 3.06 16-Sep Winds from SE during month
UCL: 18.4 18-Jun ???
0%
5%
10%
15%
20%
25%
30%Sep-16Oct-16Nov-16Dec-16Jan-17Feb-17Mar-17Apr-17May-17Jun-17Jul-17Aug-17Sep-17Oct-17Nov-17Dec-17Jan-18Feb-18Mar-18Apr-18May-18Jun-18Jul-18Aug-18Percent OperationsMonth
12L Total Operations
Operations Mean UCL
Mean: Rolling 24/mo
13.5%
13.7%
18.4%
24.3%
Ite# 4c.ii
Data used for UCL calculation
January 2009 through December 2013
Mean: 19.5
St Dev: 7
UCL: 33.5
0%
5%
10%
15%
20%
25%
30%
35%
40%Sep-16Oct-16Nov-16Dec-16Jan-17Feb-17Mar-17Apr-17May-17Jun-17Jul-17Aug-17Sep-17Oct-17Nov-17Dec-17Jan-18Feb-18Mar-18Apr-18May-18Jun-18Jul-18Aug-18Percentage OperationsMonth
12L Night Operations
Operations Mean UCL
33.5%
16%
18.2%
Mean: Rolling 24/mo
Data used for UCL calculation
January 2009 through December 2013
Mean: 7.7
St Dev: 2.96
UCL: 13.4
0%
2%
4%
6%
8%
10%
12%
14%
16%Sep-16Oct-16Nov-16Dec-16Jan-17Feb-17Mar-17Apr-17May-17Jun-17Jul-17Aug-17Sep-17Oct-17Nov-17Dec-17Jan-18Feb-18Mar-18Apr-18May-18Jun-18Jul-18Aug-18Percent OperationsMonth
12R Total Operations
Operations Mean UCL
Mean: Rolling 24/mo
13.4%
6.0%
5.3%
Data used for UCL calculation
January 2009 through December 2013
Mean: 28.9
St Dev: 8.82
UCL: 46.5
0%
10%
20%
30%
40%
50%
60%Sep-16Oct-16Nov-16Dec-16Jan-17Feb-17Mar-17Apr-17May-17Jun-17Jul-17Aug-17Sep-17Oct-17Nov-17Dec-17Jan-18Feb-18Mar-18Apr-18May-18Jun-18Jul-18Aug-18Percent OperationsMonth
12R Night Operations
Operations Mean UCL
Mean: Rolling 24/mo
46.5%
29%
24.9%
Data used for UCL calculation
January 2009 through December 2013
Mean: 2.2
St Dev: 0.98
UCL: 4.2
0%
1%
1%
2%
2%
3%
3%
4%
4%
5%Aug-16Sep-16Oct-16Nov-16Dec-16Jan-17Feb-17Mar-17Apr-17May-17Jun-17Jul-17Aug-17Sep-17Oct-17Nov-17Dec-17Jan-18Feb-18Mar-18Apr-18May-18Jun-18Jul-18Percent OperationsMonth
Departures North of Corridor
Operations Mean UCL
4.2%
1.5%
1.4%
Mean: Rolling 24/mo
0%
10%
20%
30%
40%
50%
60%
70%Aug-16Sep-16Oct-16Nov-16Dec-16Jan-17Feb-17Mar-17Apr-17May-17Jun-17Jul-17Aug-17Sep-17Oct-17Nov-17Dec-17Jan-18Feb-18Mar-18Apr-18May-18Jun-18Jul-18Percent OperationsMonth
Turbo North of Corridor
Operations Mean UCL
59.6%
56.7%
47.5%
Mean: Rolling 24/mo
Item# 4c.iii
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Tired of the ‘OB Pause’? New
Button Allows Instant Airplane
Noise Complaint
Staff
Screen grab from SanDiego7
Residents of Ocean Beach know about the “OB Pause” – or the “Point Loma
pause”. People who live under the flightpath of the San Diego International
Airport (no longer called Lindbergh Field) know to stop all conversation
when planes fly overhead.
Now, however, there’s a new invention called AirNoise which can give those
tired or sickened or bothered by the noise from jets to file a noise complaint
with just a click of a button, and it goes directly to the San Diego Airport
Authority. The button can be carried in your pocket, purse or on a keychain.
When a user clicks AirNoise’s button, the system starts looking for nearby
airplanes in a cylinder around and above the user. When the button locates
an airplane close enough it will then grab all the information about that plane
Item# 5a
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and send it off to the Airport Authority.
The inventor of AirNoise is Chris McCann who lives in La Jolla. He told NBC7
airplane noise is getting worse:
“It actually causes the windows of our house to rumble if it’s really low,
which we never had before. Those airplanes actually have woken me up
from a sound sleep before. It’s very loud and since it’s coming towards us it
just gets louder and louder.”
Created last year, San Diego users have already sent more than 120,000
complaints in using the the button, McCann says.
“We’ve seen about 6,000 to 8,000 come through on a non-airport authority
app, and we respond to as many as staff can – approximately 80 to 100 a
month.”
From the AirNoise website:
About Airnoise.io
What does Airnoise.io do?
Airnoise makes it easy for anyone to quickly file aircraft noise complaints
with the local airport authority. Instead of trying to figure out what airport a
particularly noisy airplane is heading to or from, trying to understand where
and how to file a noise complaint, and then spending the time to do it, just tell
Airnoise you want to file a complaint and we take care of the rest.
When you tell Airnoise that you’re bothered by aircraft noise, it finds the
aircraft closest to you and then files a detailed noise complaint directly with
the local airport authority. Airnoise does all the hard work so you can get
back to the things that matter most to you.
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How does Airnoise.io work? When you sign-up for an account you provide
your address so we can pinpoint your location relative to the air traffic near
you. When you kickoff the complaint process, Airnoise uses publicly-available
ADS-B data to search for aircraft near you.
Not all aircraft broadcast the ADS-B signal, but most commercial and
business aircraft do, so we can find the aircraft nearest to you well over 95%
of the time. Some small general aviation airplanes and helicopters are
equipped with ADS-B, but the FAA requires that all aircraft flying in the US
be equipped by January 2020. We also use other publicly-available data
sources to try to locate aircraft near you if the ADS-B system doesn’t find
anything.
Why use Airnoise.io instead of the local airport authority web site?
Have you tried filing a noise complaint with an “official” site? Most of them
are cumbersome and time-consuming to use and require you to fill out a web
page and all the details of the disturbance every single time. Many enforce a
15- to 30-minute delay between an aircraft flying over your house and when
you can file a noise complaint against it.
Some sites actually store your information so you don’t have to re-enter it
every time, but you still have to login and provide some information about
what bothered you.
We don’t put you through that — just click the button, send a text, or tap the
icon on the web site and you’re done. We’re also going to release iOS and
Android apps soon to make it even easier.
Does it cost anything to use Airnoise.io?
You can sign-up for free and start filing noise complaints immediately to help
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make your voice heard over the roar and help your community seek some
relief. You can file up to 15 complaints each month with a free account.
But if you live under one of the new NextGen flight paths and the noise is
really impacting your peace and quiet, you should consider subscribing to an
unlimited, paid account and also getting an Airnoise button. You can file a
complaint in one second with the button, and it will last for at least 2,400
clicks.
All paid Airnoise accounts come with a free 30-day trial so you can try the
service to see if it works for you. You can cancel your account at any time.
Many folks have told us they find it therapeutic to be able to click the Airnoise
button to instantly send a complaint to the airport authority and get right
back to the things that matter to them. They say the time and sanity savings is
well worth the nominal $5 each month.
According to NBC7:
McCann says the FAA’s NextGen program is to blame for the increase in
complaints. The program has modernized air routes to create tighter flight
tracks that sometimes go above homes that didn’t see this problem before.
The FAA released a statement saying in part: “The agency tries to address
noise impacts by designing procedures over water and industrial areas when
safety and efficiency permit. However, options in and around major
metropolitan areas are often limited due to the complex and highly congested
airspace, with numerous routes serving multiple airports that are in close
proximity to one another.”
The FAA also says its NextGen program decreases travel time, lowers aircraft
operating costs and increases safety.
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AirNosie is not the only tool you can use to file a complaint – the San Diego
International Airport released its own app.
9/5/18, 2)44 PMResidents near BWI, Reagan National pushing for legal action over plane noise from FAA's NextGen - Story | WTTG
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Residents near BWI, Reagan
National pushing for legal action
over plane noise from FAA's
NextGen
COLUMBIA, Md.
- Some communities around Reagan National Airport and BWI say the
constant, loud airplane noise above their homes is unbearable.
Petitions for both Reagan National and BWI airports against the FAA
have been filed by the Maryland attorney general.
Residents say they’ve noticed the difference when local airports started using
NextGen technology, where planes are guided by satellite navigation rather
than radar.
The FAA says it makes flying safer, more efficient and more predictable.
“My home shakes everyday, can you imagine what that's doing to my
foundation? Two years of constant... I call them ‘jet quakes.’ They are mini
earth quakes all day long,” says a Columbia, Maryland woman.
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She does not want to be identified because she says the airplane noise above
her home only allows her to get three to five hours of sleep a night and she
says it has severely impacted her life and career.
“There’s been times I’ve actually left my home, got in my car, drove til I
couldn't hear a plane. Decided to stay there. I cant tell you everywhere I’ve
stayed,” she says.
She says for the last two years, an average of 125 planes fly over her home
every day no matter the time. Many are lower to the ground as they take off or
arrive at BWI airport, 11 miles away.
“I just got a new home and I’m imposing on friends. I have a four-bedroom,
three and a half bath house that I should be able to rest in. And the fact that I
hear them all the time. Its almost like a PTSD type of situation. You hear it,
your heart palpitates, you're stressed. All you want to do, its like you pray for
quiet.”
Linda Curry lives over in Anne Arundel County, and is dealing with the same
constant noise.
“If you took the water going out of a fire hose and just narrowed it down into
a garden hose, how fast you think that water will be coming out the other
end? So they have taken the traffic from being this wide to being [narrow], so
concentrates the sound over specific areas.”
She's now leading her community to get state senators involved in their fight.
“We can actually go into millions. Because this isn’t just about [Reagan]
National and BWI. This is Boston, California — name a major airport, they
are already dealing with this,” she says.
“We are all seeing the same paths. We are all complaining about th planes
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being too low, too loud.”
And in Columbia, residents there are desperate for a change too.
“It's a scary situation to think my home is falling apart because of this and I’m
falling apart because of this.”
Several community groups who say they are affected by this noise, are all
working together and are prepared to take the fight to the Supreme Court.
9/5/18, 2)43 PMAirport called on to silence 'unrelenting' airplane noise - by j_sabatini - September 4, 2018 - The San Francisco Examiner
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Airport called on to silence
‘unrelenting’ airplane noise
By Joshua Sabatini on September 4, 2018 7:25 pm
In response to relentless complaints from residents over noise from airplanes
taking off from San Francisco International Airport, Supervisor Ahsha Safai is
now calling for flight pattern changes.
He requested a hearing Tuesday at the Board of Supervisor to address what
he said was more than eight years of noise complaints stemming from new
flight patterns at SFO impacting those living in San Francisco’s southern
neighborhoods, like the Excelsior, Outer Mission, Portola and Bayview-
Hunters Point.
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As a member of the SFO Roundtable, a voluntary committee to address
airport noise, Safai said he has “sat through meetings where people are
virtually losing their mind and their sanity. They come in tears, they come
with distress, they come talking about how their children’s lives have been
disrupted and peacefulness has been disrupted.”
He said these residents have “had their homes barraged by airport noise and
this is unrelenting.”
The hearing is expected to occur next month before the board’s Land Use and
Transportation Committee. Safai said he wants the Airport Commission and
SFO officials to participate.
“We want to talk about not just generating income at the airport but also how
we are impacting peoples live and how we can have a thoughtful conversation
about changing these flight patterns in an aggressive way,” Safai said.
SFO’s spokesperson Doug Yakel said that “the FAA NextGen system, known
as Metroplex, has caused increased community impacts in San Francisco
neighborhoods and South Bay communities as planes are directed to fly over
the same path with more precision and consistency than before.”
Departing flights from SFO are routed between Brisbane and the southern
portion of San Francisco.
Yakel said that the airport has had an SFO Noise Insulation Program in place
since the 1980s that has outfitted 15,200 homes and other structures with
soundproofing, but acknowledged a recent increase in complaints about
noise.
“We have been hearing from residents of a need to address two issues which
were not covered by the original Noise Insulation Program,” Yakel said.
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Those two issues include repair or replacement of noise insulation that has
failed due to normal wear and tear, and properties that were not insulated
“because owners failed to respond, or declined participation and
subsequently wish to receive insulation.”
Safai said the airport needs to do more to address the noise issue. “Our
airport folks have put aside enough money to possibly upgrade and insulate
maybe 10 homes in the entire peninsula area,” Safai said. “This is something
that needs to be taken more seriously.”
Yakel said that the airport launched on July 1 the “Replacement and Second
Chance Noise Insulation Program,” which would be funded by $1 million
annually “to assist about 30 homes per year through this program.”
jsabatini@sfexaminer.com
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