Burbank-Glendale-Pasadena Airport Authority Proposes Curfew
According to the press release, "This would be the first application to the FAA for a [mandatory curfew] by any U.S. airport since Congress passed the Airport Noise and Capacity Act of 1990, which barred airport imposition of new access restrictions unless approved by the FAA." "This is groundbreaking territory. We know we have an uphill battle, but the deal is to fight the fight and go as far as we can."
Evidently "it's hard to gauge what the FAA is thinking because no airport has ever started and finished a 161 study."
But, Phil Young should know all of this.
What our Mayor may not know is that the FAA just put out a timely request; timely because it's no time for pork and no time for taxpayers to foot the bill for expanding an unnecessary runway. The FAA request asks the public to weigh in on discretionary grant funding to non-primary airports like Flying Cloud Airport.
If in fact the fiscal accountability our council leadership has talked about is on the level, we can hardly believe Eden Prairie wants to put $3M to $4M down on a study which no community has ever completed successfully. And this surely is not the time for a $10M runway expansion for a few corporations just because they don't want to use Holman Field, Lakeville, Anoka or MSP. After all, our hard earned tax dollars will already be at work saving our entire financial system.
Don't you think it's fair to ask Best Buy, Super Value and others to park their aircraft somewhere else? Businesses need us a lot more than we need them. We should all remember that next time we go out to shop.