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Community Board 11 agrees to draft resolution backing limits on nonessential helicopter flights
Summary
After a presentation from Stop the Chop, the joint health and transportation committees agreed to draft a resolution echoing Community Board 7’s call to limit nonessential helicopter flights and to obtain fuller legal and economic details before the full board votes.
Sandra Umbra, chair of the joint meeting of Community Board 11’s health and social services and transportation committees, moved that the committee draft a resolution endorsing Community Board 7’s measures to restrict nonessential helicopter flights in the New York metropolitan area.
Ken Coughlin, a member of Manhattan Community Board 7 and a representative of the Stop the Chop coalition, told the committee the group seeks to ban commuter, sightseeing and charter helicopters that it classifies as “nonessential.” Coughlin said nonessential helicopters "make our cities less safe," cited a recent fatal crash…
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