Noise

FAA acceptance has been a total failure It was in 1995, when the Burbank City Council approved a resolution stating “The Airport Authority should aggressively pursue an Federal Aviation Administration Part 161 process to establish mandatory curlew on all flights.” In comments written by Mayor Dave Golonski to the Burbank-Glendale- Pasadena Airport Authority on June 13, “As the council knows, obtaining a nighttime curfew has been the centerpiece of the city’s airport noise policy frankly for as long as most of us have been alive, certainly 40 years.

An open letter to the Federal Aviation Administration: It is a rare opportunity and certain responsibility that brings us to this point in time. The residents of Burbank have a history with the Burbank-Glendale-Pasadena Airport — a history of doublespeak and expansion over and over again, even while being promised that “all is well.” It goes all the way back to the 1970s, the beginning of the joint-powers agreement and the “founding” of the Burbank-Glendale-Pasadena Airport, where the residents were promised caps on passengers and caps on flights.

AIRPORT DISTRICT — Dozens of residents filtered in and out of the airport Sky Room Monday afternoon, as a brief video laid out the Burbank- Glendale-Pasadena Airport Authority’s case for banning all late-night and early-morning flights. The four-hour workshop was the first public input session meant to gain support for the proposed curfew laid out in the Part 161 Study that would ban all flights, save for emergency, between the hours of 10 p.m. and 7 a.m. Informational packets were also made available and airport officials were on hand to answer questions from residents.

AIRPORT DISTRICT — Dozens of residents filtered in and out of the airport Sky Room Monday afternoon, as a brief video laid out the Burbank-Glendale-Pasadena Airport Authority’s case for banning all late-night and early-morning flights. The four-hour workshop was the first public input session meant to gain support for the proposed curfew laid out in the Part 161 Study that would ban all flights, save for emergency, between the hours of 10 p.m. and 7 a.m. Informational packets were also made available and airport officials were on hand to answer questions from residents.

CITY HALL — The City Council backed a local administrative law judge’s decision that allows Bob Hope Airport to continue to operate outside of state-mandated noise restrictions while it works to reduce the burden for those living in the airport’s vicinity. The decision was handed down in December by Judge Samuel D. Reyes, who admitted that “noise generated by airport operations continues to be a problem,” but that granting a three-year variance “is in the public interest.

A Noise Within, Glendale’s wonderfully professional theater company, has expertly tackled one of Shakespeare’s most multiple-personality plays with inevitably uneven results. If “The Winter’s Tale” has an identity crises, it’s no one’s fault but Shakespeare’s. The chilling first act is the story of Leontes, king of Sicily, whose irrational jealously of his lovely and loving wife Hermione turns him into an unspeakably heartless monster.

When he enrolled in an acting camp over the summer, little did Nicholas Apostolina know it would lead to a role in the theater company’s season kick-off production. The Burbank 9-year-old participated in the Summer with Shakespeare program produced by A Noise Within, a classical theater company in Glendale. “We had some great teachers,” he said. “They taught us a lot of stuff that I didn’t know before. We learned basic tools of improv, a lot of stage combat and how to use our voices and exercise your voice.

AIRPORT DISTRICT — A curfew on departures at Bob Hope Airport might bring the most benefit to nearby residents while causing the fewest adverse effects on passenger airlines and cargo carriers. That was the message of preliminary findings from an airport study into ways to reduce aircraft-related noise, discussed Monday at a Burbank-Glendale-Pasadena Airport Authority meeting. The ongoing airport study hopes to make a case to the Federal Aviation Administration that aircraft noise near the airport is enough of a problem to require an exception to national policy, which does not put restrictions on newer types of aircraft, airport spokesman Victor Gill said.