LOS ANGELES : School District Challenges Burbank Airport Project
The Los Angeles Unified School District filed suit in Superior Court on Wednesday, challenging plans for a $200-million terminal at the Burbank Airport.
The lawsuit, expected to be followed with similar action by Los Angeles on Friday, contends that the environmental impact report for the new terminal is inadequate because it fails to consider noise that will be caused by a doubling of airport traffic.
District spokeswoman Diana Munatones said the suit asks for a court order requiring the airport to provide mitigation, such as soundproofing for several East Valley schools near the airport.
The Burbank-Glendale-Pasadena Airport Authority voted unanimously March 26 to build a 670,000-square-foot terminal, nearly four times the size of the current one. The existing terminal, which opened in 1930, is closer to the runway than modern safety regulations allow. The airport’s consultant has projected that the number of passengers using the facility annually will double by 2005 and double again by 2015.
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