Who Are We?
UproarLA fights the FAA's "Nextgen" low altitude airplane flightpaths at Hollywood Burbank Airport. We are a unified coalition of Los Angeles and San Fernando Valley residents, parents and environmentalists committed to rolling back noise and pollution-spewing airplane traffic over our schools, homes, neighborhoods and the Santa Monica Mountains.
Our group includes residents from North Hollywood, Toluca Lake, Studio City, Valley Village, Sherman Oaks, Encino, Hollywood Hills, Laurel Canyon, Coldwater Canyon, Beverly Glen, Bel Air, and other areas. It includes a large number of concerned parents from many of the impacted schools, comprised of over 10,000 students, including: Carpenter Elementary, Colfax Elementary, Dixie Canyon Elementary, Sherman Oaks Elementary, Campbell Hall, Oakwood School, Buckley School, Harvard-Westlake School, Sunnyside Preschool, Millikan Middle School, and Walter Reed Middle School.
What Do We Want?
TO ELIMINATE THE JET SUPERHIGHWAY
To stop, through a legal process, the FAA’s Superhighway of Jets (created by two new flight paths out of Burbank Airport).
This Superhighway is having a devastating effect on all of the communities, schools, parks, and protected open spaces beneath it.
How Will We Do It?
UproarLA has retained legal counsel that has won against the FAA for this exact issue. This firm has a history of successfully fighting the FAA on this issue and a commitment to supporting community groups like ours. The legal team has many years of experience with aviation-related, federal environmental laws, a knowledge of UproarLA and our legal strategy, and other successful suits against the FAA. There is a strong legal case, especially on procedural and environmental grounds.
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As a backstop to a City of Los Angeles suit against the FAA, UproarLA is preparing to sue the FAA when the flight path proposal becomes final (originally slated for January 3, 2019, but now awaiting completion of the FAA's Environmental Assessment). There are only 60 days after it becomes final to sue, or there is a risk of being time-barred.
1) Please contact your Government Representatives and tell them how important this issue is to you. Click on TAKE ACTION BUTTON ABOVE.
2) Join our Burbank Airport Outreach working group. We need to remind Burbank Airport on a regular basis that we are strong in our resolve to fight these new flight paths. We would like to work with Burbank Airport on other issues as well (e.g., repeated violations of the airport's voluntary curfew, their new Part 150 Noise Study, and their new Citizen's Advisory Committee).
3) If you would like to do more, UproarLA can always use the help! For example we need:
a. Web Design/Maintenance Help
b. “Block Captains” for even more areas, such as Toluca Lake, The Donas, Beverly Glen, West Sherman
Oaks Hills, and Upper Laurel Canyon​
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WHY YOU SHOULD GET INVOLVED
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1. PARTICULATE EMISSIONS IMPACTS TO TREES AND PLANTS.
Particulate matter deposits on leaves increase plant transpiration and the risk of plants suffering from drought. Particulate matter could thus be contributing more strongly to tree mortality and forest decline than previously assumed.
2. HEALTH IMPACTS FROM AIRCRAFT NOISE AND PARTICULATE EMISSIONS. There are numerous studies documenting the impacts to health from repeated, prolonged exposure. These include:
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Airport noise can seriously affect the health and psychological well-being of children, including documented significant increases in blood pressure and stress hormones for children who live near airports. (Munich Airport longitudinal study)
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Children subjected to flight path noise did not learn to read as well, because they tended to tune out speech.
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People residing near the Seattle–Tacoma Airport were found in a 2020 study by Public Health for Seattle & King County to have a lower life expectancy and higher rates of death across all causes than in other parts of the county, and the rate increased the closer you are to the airport. Residents of airport communities had higher rates of death from heart disease, unintentional injury (accidents), chronic lower respiratory disease, diabetes, chronic liver disease, and homicide than did people in the rest of the county.
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Aviation emissions around the world cause approximately 16,000 premature deaths per year.
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Jet exhaust subjects residents to extremely high concentrations of the carcinogens benzene, formaldehyde and 1,3-butadiene, and hundreds of other toxic compounds.
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High levels of aircraft noise were associated with increased risks of stroke, coronary heart disease, and cardiovascular disease for both hospital admissions and mortality. U.S. study from 2018 found "statistically significant associations" between exposure to aircraft noise and adverse cardiovascular outcomes for people living near airports.
3. NOISE POLLUTION IMPACTS TO WILDLIFE.
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Noise pollution in protected areas impacts animal behavior that can have profound impacts on ecosystems that depend on the interactions between plants and wildlife. The new flight paths from Burbank Airport concentrate flight paths over parks, protected open spaces, recreation areas, and wildlife in the Santa Monica Mountains.
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Local “sensitive” urban species like hummingbirds, bluebirds, goldfinches, and mockingbirds may avoid areas that are too noisy due to aircraft flyovers. (Source: Draft Environmental Impact Statement for New Passenger Terminal, Burbank-Glendale-Pasadena Airport, October 1987).
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4. DIMINUTION IN PROPERTY VALUE DUE TO AIRCRAFT NOISE.
Study concluded that the higher the relative price of a property, the higher the diminution in value, with largest loss 22.5% - 29% for premium housing and 19% loss for moderately-priced housing:
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