Update: March 6, 2019 — Sherman Oaks & Encino for Quiet Skies

Motion passed by the City Council on February 27 to request LAWA to work with the FAA to address impacts.

CITY COUNCIL VOTE (Feb. 27) RECAP

On February 27, the Los Angeles City Council voted unanimously to approve Councilman Koretz’s motion to request the FAA to address noise and safety impacts at Van Nuys Airport (VNY), invoking Section 175 of the FAA Reauthorization Act of 2018.

This was in response to our efforts, and a 622% spike in noise complaints by Encino, Sherman Oaks, and Studio City residents, as well as parts of Bel-Air and along the Mulholland ridge. We have been working with the City of Los Angeles, a number of City Council members, the VNY Community Advisory Committee (CAC), the Board of Airport Commissioners (BOAC), and Los Angeles World Airport (LAWA), to return VNY aircraft paths to where they have historically been for decades.

A number of residents who live miles from VNY and Burbank (BUR) Airports, spoke to the full City Council about the harmful effects that the FAA’s changes to flight paths have had on their families and businesses, which now directs hundreds of loud, low-flying aircraft every day - and night - over the noise-sensitive elevations of the Santa Monica Mountain area. The FAA enacted these changes without properly notifying our communities or conducting formal impact studies.

Before it was passed, the motion was amended by Councilman Krekorian, to include language that the FAA also take into account the relationship between flight procedures at both VNY and BUR Airports. The FAA had also changed BUR flight paths recently over these same communities, which has caused a “stacking” of general aviation, commercial, and helicopter aircraft. Read the motion here.