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Legal, and Related, Aspects of Airport
Land Use Planning
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by

Lyman M. Tondel, Jr.
New York City, U.S.A.

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PREFACE

The general subject of this conference is noise abatement at airports, and this paper is but one of those that deals with the phase of the general subject assigned to Committee No. 2. That phase relates to means of reducing airport noise annoyance by keeping the people who might be subject to it from living, or assembling in large numbers, in an "affected area".*

The five other Committees' subjects include reduction of aircraft noise at its source, or by operating techniques, which are the other two principal methods. As will be seen, the area and degree of noise annoyance may be reduced by wise land use planning in the "affected areas" and every locality is well advised to do such planning; but the practical problems that stand in the way of making such planning effective are so numerous, and vary so greatly from one "affected area" to

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* Since Committee No. 4 deals with means of measuring or defining an affected area there is little discussion of such means in this paper. An "affected area" will simply be referred to as such.