Air Traffic Noise in Bel Air Hills

Due to FAA mandated changes in departure and arrival flight paths at both Burbank and Van Nuys Airports, excessive jet noise has now become a serious problem for over 100,000 residents across the Santa Monica Mountains from Studio City on the east to Encino on the west and extending to areas south of Mulholland, including parts of Bel Air Hills. These are also all high fire severity hazard zones with the risk of wildfire burning all the way to the ocean like the recent Woolsey Fire and the 1961 Bel Air Fire. To find out more about the problem, and to find out how to file complaints and/or become involved, here are some websites you can go to: www.uproarla.org, www.studiocityforquietskies.com, www.quietskiesnow.org, and https://airnoise.io.

Our Councilman, Paul Koretz, as well as the entire Los Angeles City Council, are well aware of the issue and are trying to help us. Please let them know you care about this and appreciate their help, and that we need immediate relief. However, this is a federal issue so on March 21st Senators Feinstein and Harris along with Congressmen Sherman and Schiff sent a letter to the FAA on our behalf to strongly urge them to review these new flight paths due to the many problems we are experiencing. Although the FAA did respond that they will do so, to date nothing has changed, no meetings have been scheduled and no time line has been offered. The thunder in our skies continues day and night.  We need many voices to reach out to our federal representatives frequently and vigorously to let them know we continue to suffer.  Please contact:

• Senator Dianne Feinstein at https://www.feinstein.senate.gov
• Senator Kamala Harris at https://www.harris.senate.gov
• Congressman Brad Sherman at https://sherman.house.gov
• Congressman Adam Schiff at https://schiff.house.gov
• Congressman Ted Lieu at https://lieu.house.gov.