BURBANK : Airport Panel Backs Environmental Study
The Burbank Airport Authority voted unanimously Monday to certify an updated environmental study concluding that quadrupling the size of the airport terminal will not result in any significant noise impacts.
Airport officials were under orders to redo the project’s environmental impact report after a Los Angeles Superior Court judge determined the potential for noise, traffic and air pollution had not been properly studied.
But the updated study, released in June, came to the same primary conclusion as the first report: The number of passengers using the airport will be the same, regardless of whether a new terminal is built. Thus, any increase in aircraft traffic will occur with or without the project.
That finding angered residents living under the airport’s flight paths, who argued that a larger terminal with double the number of flights will invariably increase noise. They support the idea of a new terminal, but do not want to see it much larger than it is now.
Judge Robert H. O’Brien is scheduled to hear the case again on Nov. 28.
One of the authority’s nine commissioners, Robert Garcin, was absent from Monday’s meeting.
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