Suit Against Expansion of Airport Dropped
The city of Los Angeles has dropped an 8-year-old lawsuit that sought to block the planned expansion of the Burbank-Glendale-Pasadena Airport, an airport spokesman said Monday.
The suit targeted a 1993 plan by the airport authority to build a terminal on land then owned by Lockheed Martin. It contended that the expansion would create noise, traffic jams and pollution.
Efforts to build the terminal have since stalled, and the planned expansion has been reduced from 27 gates to 14.
Burbank Airport Executive Director Dios Marrero said the legal case “outlived the circumstances that brought it about.”
Los Angeles officials could not be reached for comment.
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