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Proposed airport expansion faces turbulence from the neighbours By Bill Hutchins
News – The owners of a Kingston marina are urging city council to stop the expansion of a runway at Norman Rogers Airport. “We are worried that it’s going to kill our family business with the excess noise, and customers won’t want to stay,” said Lori Buzzi, whose family has owned and operated Collins Bay Marina for 45 years. She says about 50 per cent of boaters at the marina stay there all season. “The boats are their cottages. For transient boaters, their number one complaint is the airplane noise.” The business is in the flight path of the airport’s main north-south runway, which is slated to be lengthened to 6,000 feet from the current 5,000 feet. The Buzzis say adding 1,000 feet of runway will lead to an increase in airplane size, air traffic and noise. Their marina at 1270 Coverdale Drive, near the entrance to Lemoine Point Conservation Area, is located 500 metres from the runway. The Buzzis and their children went to council June 21 to state their case, insisting the city’s own studies are inconsistent and don’t factor in all of the small personal aircraft that The Kingston Stilters group make their way through downtown Kingston during the use the airport each year. “They’re not countKingston Pride Parade on June 18. Organized by Kingston Pride, the annual parade and ing all the planes. They’re not counting over
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11,000 flights. They’re not including them in the noise studies,” she said. But an expert hired by the city to study the noise impact concludes the runway expansion won’t generate much more ground or sky noise in the year 2026 than it did in 2012. Bernhard Schropp, with WSP Canada, says he used Transport Canada noise evaluation guidelines to assess the impact on surrounding homes and businesses. The study concluded that future noise generated by planes – both within and beyond the airport property - meets Transport Canada guidelines. “Aircraft will not fly any lower over the marina than they do today,” he told councillors. A longer runway won’t change the landing point of planes that are flying in over the marina, but it would benefit larger planes that need more room for take-off. Planes will also climb on take-off much faster. Most general use airports in Canada have at least a 6,000foot runway, he explained. Officials insist that most airplanes can take off or land in less than a minute – generating less noise and duration than a freight train – and the newer generation of planes have quieter engines. An estimated 71,000 people fly
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