Noise Variance at Van Nuys Airport
* Re “Van Nuys Airport Gains Key Permit,” May 20.
Regarding the Department of Transportation’s noise variance renewal for Van Nuys Airport, Judge [Samuel D.] Reyes, in stating that the determining factor in his decision was the economic benefits provided by the airport, casts himself with those who would clear-cut old-growth forests and purse-seine our oceans until fish stocks collapsed.
And yet federal and state lawmakers have seen the wisdom in restricting both. If the god of economic benefit wasn’t persuasive enough to win those battles, why is it persuasive enough to subject the residents of the San Fernando Valley to continuing and increasing degradation of quality of life because of noise pollution?
Fish won. Forests won. Residents of the Valley lost.
ROBERT FOSTER
Sherman Oaks
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