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Sunday, February 9, 2020
FAA grounds flight path changes over Scottsdale BY WAYNE SCHUTSKY Progress Managing Editor
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cottsdale officials and residents are angry with the FAA after the agency declined to alter much-maligned flight paths over northern parts of the city despite a nearly-$200,000 city-funded lobbying effort. The flight paths – part of the Federal Aviation Administration’s NextGen plan to
increase efficiency in 2014 – resulted in a successful legal challenge by the City of Phoenix and some of its historic neighborhoods, which argued the FAA did not do proper public outreach to figure out how the path changes would affect them. Other Valley residents, including those in northern Scottsdale, were also affected by noise as a result of the new routes. After the U.S. Court of Appeals for the
Big signs for N. In the swim Scottsdale loom on the horizon
D.C. Circuit ruled in favor of Phoenix and the neighborhoods in 2017, the FAA signed onto an agreement requiring it to return westbound departure routes to “approximate, as closely as possible, the pre-September 2014 flight paths,” and conduct outreach efforts with other communities affected by the NextGen changes.
see FAA page 8
BY WAYNE SCHUTSKY Progress Managing Editor
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he city is asking for resident feedback on proposed new rules to pave the way for signs as high as 60 feet along the Loop 101 freeway in northern Scottsdale. The proposed amendment to the city’s rules regulating signage would, if passed, allow large mixed-use developments along the freeway between Scottsdale and Hayden Roads to construct signage within 600 feet of Loop 101. According to the city, the request for new
see SIGNS page 6
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