More Homes, School to Get Burbank Jet Noise Insulation

Editor’s note: This story appeared garbled in Wednesday’s editions, so it is being reprinted in full today.

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The Federal Aviation Administration has provided a $5-million grant for jet noise insulation to a middle school and 210 homes under the Burbank Airport flight path, airport officials said this week.

Since the program began in 1989, 259 other homes and four schools have been approved to receive sound insulation with FAA and airport matching funds.

Luther Burbank Middle School, already a recipient of some work, will get additional soundproofing valued at $582,000.

The Burbank-Glendale-Pasadena Airport Authority’s current budget calls for $11 million in noise mitigation and abatement projects.

Airport officials say their goal is to soundproof 3,100 homes and eight schools in Burbank and Los Angeles by 2015 at an estimated cost of $130 million.