Reducing Airplane Noise in San Diego

By Ed Joyce / Reporter, KPBS Public Broadcasting

Published March 9, 2009 at 12:05 PM PDT

This story was published more than 15 years ago.

The San Diego County Regional Airport Authority wants to hear what people think about plans to reduce airplane noise. The authority holds a workshop Tuesday to talk about a federal noise study of Lind

The San Diego County Regional Airport Authority wants to hear what people think about plans to reduce airplane noise. The authority holds a workshop Tuesday to talk about a federal noise study of Lindbergh Field. KPBS Reporter Ed Joyce has details.

North Park and Point Loma are among the neighborhoods most affected by planes flying in and out of Lindbergh Field.

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Dan Frazee is the Director of Airport Noise Mitigation for the Airport Authority.

He says an on-going program pays the full cost for home noise insulation in exchange for homeowners agreeing not to sue the authority.

Frazee says that's one area the federal study will address.

Frazee: So we've had that program in place since 1999 to insulate homes on the west side, on the east side of the airport. So that's one of the issues that it actually looks at. It looks at a bunch of alternative measures that an airport can propose to adopt to reduce or eliminate noise issues.

He says one of those measures could include changing some flight paths to reduce noise over neighborhoods.

The federal study is expected to be completed later this year.

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The workshop starts at 5 p.m. at the airport's commuter terminal on the third floor. Parking validations will be provided.

Ed Joyce, KPBS News.

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Ed Joyce was the environment reporter and afternoon news anchor for KPBS-FM. Before joining KPBS, he worked as an editor/columnist with Copley News Service in San Diego. Ed has an extensive background in newspaper, radio, web and TV journalism. After graduating with a B.A. in Communications from the University of Washington in Seattle, Ed began a career in broadcast journalism. His work has included stints in public broadcasting, commercial broadcasting and education -- working as an affiliate professor of communication and reporter at the University of Idaho and Washington State University in Pullman, Wash. During the past 20 years he has worked in radio, TV and print as a news reporter, anchor, writer, editor and producer. Along the way he has won numerous awards for general news reporting, newswriting, feature and issue reporting and breaking news reporting from The Associated Press, The Society of Professional Journalists, San Diego Press Club and other organizations. During the mid-1990s, while working for Oregon Public Broadcasting, he was a frequent contributor to National Public Radio, including a feature report on the memorial service for 14 U.S. Forest Service "hotshots" who died fighting a wildfire in Colorado (the crew was based in a central Oregon town). He’s also filed reports with Marketplace, KQED’s California Report and Climate Watch and with national and regional networks throughout the United States. At KPBS, Ed continues his contributions to National Public Radio and other national and regional news organizations. He has won awards from the Society of Professional Journalists and San Diego Press Club for his environmental reporting at KPBS-FM-TV and for producing and anchoring radio newscasts. In 2007 he was selected a National Press Foundation fellow for Understanding Violent Weather II program. The seminars were held at the National Weather Center in Norman, Okla. In 2008 he spoke at a UC San Diego conference on U.S. National Security as part of the school’s Institute on Global Conflict and Cooperation. Ed led a discussion with the 18 foreign government officials and academics about the political debate over climate change. In 2010, Ed was elected to a three-year term on the board of the San Diego Press Club.

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