Poor planning at root of airport complaints

Sunday, Nov. 6, 2005 | 7:57 a.m.

Regarding the Las Vegas Sun's Nov. 3 editorial, "Noisy skies not so friendly":

Complaints about airplane noise around airports are not new. The real problem is that the planners initially involved with zoning around McCarran International Airport didn't do their homework. If they had, they could have learned about this problem from other cities around the country.

Property aligned with current and future approaches to and from McCarran with adequate buffers on each side should never have allowed residences. You don't have to be a rocket scientist to figure out what the appropriate zoning should have been to avoid this current problem.

I live under the downwind approach leg to McCarran. The noise level is tolerable, most of the time.

Ron Pyzik

Henderson

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