![]() Noise complaints have risen by almost 492% in the past 10 years. Paul Anslow, director of the airport, said they are at the will of the FAA.Ī lot has changed at the airport and the surrounding communities since the last master plan was completed. “As soon as we get funding, we'll get a new master plan,” he said. However, Bishop said the airport has tried to complete a master plan for the past three years but the Federal Aviation Administration refuses to fund the effort. She thinks airport officials want to avoid studying the noise so as not to be found liable. Brian Bishop, deputy airport director, said there are plan updates from 2011, 2000, 19.īishop said the lawsuit is based off the 1988 master plan because that is the plan the agreements reference.Ĭharlene Willey of the Save Our Skies Alliance said the airport is putting off completing a master plan due to the lawsuit. Master plans are typically updated in 10-year cycles. A new master plan, which the airport has not undertaken since 2011, would look into the noise levels. Marsella said the court’s decision is based on a noise model from 1998 when flight operations were less than what they are today. Whether households will sue, sue separately or sue as a class action lawsuit is unknown, Marsella said. Marsella said out of the 2,804 homes, about 1,400 to 1,500 do not have aviation easements. The HOA wants the ruling to include more homes. “They basically said it was 10 times as noisy as what was promised.”īoth parties filed appeals against the judge’s decision. ![]() “Basically, the airport - the sound, the operations - violated (the easement) per the 2000 master plan,” said Diane Marsella of Rock Creek HOA. “The Court finds that the contours of the 1988 Master Plan have been exceeded by the sustained operation of aircraft as shown by the Contours provided in the 2000 Master Plan,” Senior District Court Judge Stephen Enderlin Howard wrote in the bench trial order. ![]() The home owners association, which is located in Boulder County northwest of the airport, has sued the airport and pointed to five easements it claimed the airport violated, but the court only ruled in favor of one. ![]() Luke Zarzecki Mountain Metropolitan Airport could face lawsuits from homeowners after a judge ruled the airport violated avigation easements against Rock Creek Master HOA regarding noise, according to Boulder County Court documents. ![]()
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