LAGUNA WOODS
If the proposed El Toro international airport becomes a reality, the city’s senior population would be more likely than the population at large to suffer heart attacks from the noise and pollution, according to a report submitted today to county officials. The report is in response to the county’s 1996 Environmental Impact Report that outlines the negative effects the proposed airport would have on surrounding communities.
Laguna Woods, which became a municipality March 24, hired a consultant to study how airport noise and pollution would affect senior citizens because the county study did not take them into account, Councilman Bert Hack said.
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