Burbank Airport Mediation
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* Regarding your recent editorial on the Burbank Airport expansion mediation (“Burbank Should Yield a Bit on Airport Expansion Issue,” Sept. 7), I cannot agree more with your call for compromise. However, your editorial misses the crucial point that Burbank, and the many surrounding communities impacted by airport noise, traffic, etc., have offered numerous compromises. Every single offer has been met by a resounding no from the airport commission members representing Burbank and Glendale and from the FAA. As for your notion that Burbank and others are asking for things the authority and / or the FAA cannot deliver, I would ask that you more carefully check the facts. For example, several other airports in California (including John Wayne Airport and Long Beach Airport) operate with mandatory curfews on aircraft departures.
The FAA and the airport authority clearly have the authority to meet the communities halfway on this and other issues. Instead, they have rejected every offer by Burbank and other communities, and it was that abject failure to compromise that led to the breakdown of the mediation talks. Rather than assuming Burbank is asking too much or not being reasonable, The Times needs to ask: What is the airport commission willing to offer by way of compromise?
CHRISTOPHER BARNES
Member, Board of Directors, Studio City Residents Assn.; Member, Part 150 Study Advisory Committee
Studio City
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