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Originally Posted by cllew
They want to protect the 24 hour operation of the airport. Richardson International is one of the few major airports in Canada that does not have a night noise curfew.
If they don't have jurisdictional input I am sure they are a well connected NIMBY on development outside their grounds.
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No doubt. But at the same time circumstances change. As noted before, planes have become much quieter than in the past. It's the nighttime cargo flights that are the last bastion of the old, loud jets, but in another 20 years those will mostly be gone and replaced by newer, quieter aircraft. And as pressure builds up for more development along Portage, those two factors will converge and ultimately lead to changes.
Besides, it's not like we'd be talking a wholesale gutting of the zone. I can understand that the stadium site will remain protected, for instance. But cutting Portage Avenue out of that zone is basically just trimming around the outer edges... it's literally moving the boundary a couple hundred metres north in some instances.
Eventually the economic pressure will force it to happen. Maybe not for another 20 years, but it will happen eventually.