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another, that to date such plans usually have not been substantially carried out.  In consequence, it is realistic not to put too much confidence in land use planning as the solution to the noise problem, especially at existing airports where the practical problems are the most serious.  No overall means of preventing noise annoyance near airports has yet been discovered, and this writer doubts that any will be unless there is some major scientific and engineering break-through.  Meanwhile it is imperative for all means of noise annoyance reduction to be pursued. 

While jet aircraft noise presents society with one of its most difficult annoyance problems, we must repeatedly remind ourselves that there are other severe annoyances (noise and others) in modern society, and that it is not equitable, for example, to pay large sums of money to buy from their owners at fair market value all residences within 5 or 6 miles from the end of a runway and pay nothing to a homeowner 100 feet from a new superhighway that is not only noisy but, by the very fact of its being built, destroys pre-existing community relationships.  Means, such as purchases of property, for reducing airport noise annoyance must be considered not only from the narrow point of view of relief for the airport neighbor but also from the point of view of the extend to which the cost of such relief may be imposed on the public, or segments thereof, without giving similar relief to others such as superhighway neighbors. 

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