Hello neighbors, If you're concerned about airplane noise, or its effects on property values, health, sleep, and learning, we encourage you to take action quickly: RECENT NEWS At the Aug 4 meeting of the Select Committee on South Bay Arrivals, the FAA stated emphatically that the proposed modifications to the current ("SERFR") route (a major source of the airplane noise over LAH) are NOT a restoration of the previously-quiet route ("BSR"):
In fact, the FAA is refusing to even compare the expected noise level of the new DAVYJ route with the old BSR route: they only want to compare to the much noisier SERFR route they implemented 18 months ago. As presented, DAVYJ will be lower (and louder) over LAH, Stanford and PA than SERFR now is. The Select Committee is being pressured by some residents in the Santa Cruz Mountains and Summit areas to endorse the DAVYJ solution. Two advocacy groups based in these areas previously said they would NOT support a change unless it restored the previous altitudes--yet they are now urging the Committee to support this change knowing it would simply shift the problem onto their neighbors to the west. But it is not hopeless: At the last meeting, two members of the Committee questioned why we were trying to put the new procedure onto the old route instead of trying to find the least disruptive place to put it. REQUEST FOR HELP The Select Committee needs to hear from people who are opposed to this change. I urge each of you to send an email to the members of the Select Committee expressing your concern and urging them to find a true "regional solution" to fix the airplane noise problem instead of moving the increased noise over other people. Here are some points you may wish to make (please feel free to reword instead of cut-and-paste):
Here are the email addresses for the Select Committee members and their alternates. You can cut and paste the email addresses into the To: field of your email. Thank you, Quiet Skies Los Altos Hills |