Curfew

BURBANK — Capping off years of debate, the tri-cities’ governing board of Bob Hope Airport announced it will present a plan to implement a mandatory curfew that would halt all late-night and early-morning flights at the airport, officials said. But its passage could be in doubt if the Federal Aviation Administration grounds the plan. The Burbank-Glendale-Pasadena Airport Authority will present a draft of the Part 161 Study, which would impose a mandatory curfew on all flights from 10 p.m. to 7 a.m., to the public at its March 17 meeting, and conduct an initial study session, airport spokesman Victor Gill said.

BURBANK — Hoping to keep the sanctity of a voluntary curfew in place, the Burbank City Council recommended erecting a billboard that would cite U.S. Airways if the airline continues to fly in the face of the suggested morning restriction. The Arizona-based airline has one scheduled flight from Burbank to Phoenix at 6:45 a.m., 15 minutes before the 7 a.m. hour at which the voluntary curfew begins. “The voluntary curfew . . . hinges on everyone participating,” Councilman Dave Golonski said.

BURBANK — A curfew on departures at Bob Hope Airport might bring the most benefit to nearby residents while causing the fewest adverse effects on passenger airlines and cargo carriers. That was the message of preliminary findings from an airport study into ways to reduce aircraft-related noise, discussed Monday at a Burbank-Glendale-Pasadena Airport Authority meeting. The ongoing airport study hopes to make a case to the Federal Aviation Administration that aircraft noise near the airport is enough of a problem to require an exception to national policy, which does not put restrictions on newer types of aircraft, airport spokesman Victor Gill said.

I am writing this commentary in response to the Community Commentary titled "Youth curfew laws are a civic disgrace." The article appeared in the Feb. 1 edition of the Glendale News-Press. It was written by Arden Lawrence. As you will see, there is always another side to the story. On the night Lawrence refers to, Jan. 6, two Glendale Police officers were on a routine patrol in a black-and-white patrol car near Brand Boulevard and Broadway. The officers saw a group of about 25 to 30 juveniles in the driveway south of the In-N-Out Burger restaurant.

BURBANK ? Initial Federal Aviation Administration feedback on a study of possible nighttime curfews at Bob Hope Airport showed that aircraft-born noise in neighborhoods near the airport would not justify limiting flight arrivals and departures, said Airport spokesman Victor Gill. But the Burbank-Glendale-Pasadena Airport Authority said it will continue the study in hopes it will lead to a mandatory 10 p.m. to 7 a.m. curfew on inbound and outbound flights at the airport. "The primary objective that the airport authority has ?

Expanding the area included in a mandatory nighttime curfew on all aircraft flights is among the changes the Burbank-Glendale-Pasadena Airport Authority is looking to make in order to get a federally approved curfew. To achieve that goal, the authority wants to enlist the help of the Burbank City Council to lobby federal lawmakers for changes in the criteria used in a study required to be eligible for the curfew. "The notion is rather than go ahead and do an application [for a curfew]

Josh Kleinbaum With a shortage of sports fields in the city and tight budgets expected for the next few years, the Glendale City Council must decide whether to curb late-night noise at the Glendale Sports Complex at the expense of field time and a revenue source. Responding to complaints of late-night noise by at least one neighbor, the council will discuss at its Tuesday meeting the effect of rolling back the closing time at the sports complex from 10 p.m. to 9 p.m. "I do understand the complaints of the neighbors, and this is an issue we're going to have to balance somehow," Councilman Rafi Manoukian said.