Living With Noise
I’ve been an interested bystander to years of debate and controversy and two positive voting processes; I now feel I have something to offer as a definitive thought for the citizens of Orange County.
Our new international airport is going to have a negative effect on some of our fellow citizens by virtue of a noise impact on their home environment. It is true and it will affect a small percentage of us negatively. But this noise disturbance will be of sporadic and short duration. It will have only that impact. It will not be a constant roar, it will also not produce a black filth from tire dust in literally tens of thousands of homes, it will not pollute as vehicles do. I and a really vast number of Orange County citizens live astride the 24-hour burden of our freeway noise and all of us accept and accommodate the freeway in our lives. We must. So must a few of us unselfishly accept and accommodate the relative minor inconvenience of airport noise.
For the great populace of our county it will mean a quantum leap in our ability to travel the world, to move the results of our labor and most importantly to increase our ability to share with our fellow men and women our cultures--for they will visit us as much as us them.
ROBERT LOUIS DESCHAMPS
San Clemente
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