DANBURY -- The public is invited to share their thoughts on a study that looks at noise from the Danbury Municipal Airport.
The study was prepared by the Louis Berger Group, a New York-based consulting company. City officials hired the company in 2003 after neighbors complained about the airport.
While the report states that activity at the airport has declined 40 percent between 1976 and 2002, neighbors aren't so sure.
Strat Sherman, a Ridgefield resident and a member of the Danbury Airport Neighbors Association, said, if anything, the airport is shifting toward larger, noisier jets.
The public hearing on the noise study starts at 7 p.m. in the Common Council chambers on the third floor of City Hall at 155 Deer Hill Avenue.
When residents hear about the Danbury Municipal Airport noise study tonight, they may not realize the airport is shifting toward more and larger jets, said one frequent critic of the airport. Strat Sherman, of Ridgefield, is a member of the Danbury Airport Neighbors Association and of a group that commented on portions of the city's noise report as it was written.
"The most important recommendations by the working group were eliminated from the final report," said Sherman, who is critical of the noise study. "It takes the big important noise issues and sweeps them under the table."
The study, called a Part 150 Noise Computability Study, started in June 2003 to address complaints by the airport's neighbors. The last noise study, done by the Louis Berger Group of Albany, N.Y., was completed in 1987.
Mayor Mark Boughton's take on the report is somewhat different than Sherman's. The airport isn't shifting toward larger jets, Boughton said.
"What the report did is gather empirical data, which was a comparison of the airport in 1987 and in 2005," Boughton said. "The data says the airport isn't noisier."
The airport isn't any nosier now than in 1987? Hmmm, that sounds strange and I think some neighbors in Ridgefield have a different opinion on the matter.
Given the bad blood between the lawmakers in Danbury and Ridgefield over the airport fiasco, we might see some fireworks at City Hall tonght. We'll just have to see how this all plays out. Stay tuned.
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