During a meeting of the Environment and Sustainability Committee on Monday, city officials will discuss how they can better contain the noise from the Dallas Love Field Airport.
For decades, residents around the Dallas Love Field airport have been fighting for some peace and quiet.In two three-month periods last year, residents in Dallas made a total of nearly 3,800 complaints about noisy aircraft flying in and out of Dallas Love Field Airport. During a meeting of the Environment and Sustainability Committee on Monday, city officials will discuss how they can better contain the noise.
In ’81, the Love Field Environmental Advisory Committee chose a consultant to look at and make recommendations on how the city’s voluntary noise abatement program could be more effective. The committee reviewed 15 recommendations. In 1982, Love Field implemented its nighttime preferential runway measure. Under this, aircraft weighing more than 12,500 pounds are supposed to use a different runway between 9 p.m. and 6 a.m. Aircraft are also prohibited from engine run-ups between midnight and 6 a.m. The city also asks operators to avoid run-ups after 10 p.m., but this is voluntary.
Toward the end of 2019, the City Auditor’s Office looked into the noise program to make sure the aviation department was in compliance. That audit found two big things: The program hasn’t been reviewed since it was approved in 1986, and that the aviation department needs to update the program to be consistent with federal regulations and “ensure equity in noise exposure.”
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