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Residents urge airport board to strengthen noise abatement after daily training flights
Summary
Multiple residents told the advisory board that repetitive low-altitude training flights have reduced quality of life; they urged an enhanced noise-abatement program or a citizen committee to monitor flight patterns and seek relief.
Several residents used the public-comment period at the July 28 meeting to press the advisory board for more aggressive noise-abatement measures, saying frequent training flights start early, continue late and sometimes fly directly over homes.
"We wanted to express our concern about the frequency and the intensity of plane noise over our neighborhood," said Marlene White, who said she and her husband moved near the airport about a year ago. Her husband, Ray, provided timed observations saying he counted 24 flights between 7:30 and 8:43 a.m. and that some aircraft arrived about 60 seconds apart.
Long-time resident Cynthia Radigan told the board operations had grown dramatically since the tower was built: "Our number of operations went from maybe 25, 30,000 a year to 180,000 a year. That's a huge increase," she said, adding that prior noise studies failed to capture residents’ lived experience. Radigan urged creation of a noise-abatement or neighbor committee to coordinate community concerns, the airport manager’s office and flight schools.
Board members thanked the commenters and agreed to post construction updates online; they recommended gathering systematic data (traffic counts, MOR entries) and suggested the board and flight schools collaborate on evidence that could support formal noise-abatement measures. No formal noise ordinance or operational restriction was enacted at the meeting.
