Wednesday, September 01, 1999
Ways to lessen airport noise being studied
BY KRISTINA GOETZ
The Cincinnati Enquirer
FLORENCE — The whir of airplanes over Northern Kentucky will never be completely gone, but airport officials are working to keep it down.
At a joint meeting Tuesday of the Boone County Fiscal Court and Florence City Council, airport officials told the group about existing and new alternatives they are examining in order to reduce noise.
The Cincinnati/Northern Kentucky International Airport is conducting a study — done every five years — aimed at trying to balance the airport's operational needs and its impact on the surrounding community.
“It's never going to be 100 percent the way everybody likes it,” saidBarbara Schempf, noise abate ment manager for the airport.
But through the study, she said, the airport hopes to come up with a plan of mixed alternatives that could include modifying the way planes arrive and depart and using new technology that could help planes keep a straighter path when departing so noise would stay in designated areas.
“Using that technology is critical to keeping that noise where it's supposed to be,” said Boone County Judge-executive Gary Moore.
It could also include identifying another way to bring aircraft in at night, particularly during the overflow time of 10 p.m. to midnight.
“We have a long way to go,” Ms. Schempf said. “This is a money game and a technology game. It's not going to happen overnight.”
In October, community members will be able to voice opinions on any of the new recommendations at a public workshop. The recommendations will eventually have to be approved by the Federal Aviation Administration.
In other discussion, city and county officials also proposed a census 2000 “complete count” committee that would develop a public awareness campaign about the upcoming census. The materials will be mailed out by the U.S. Census Bureau in March.
Florence City Coordinator Jeff Koenig stressed the importance of getting the correct numbers.
“Some funding is tied to the count,” he said.
During the last census about 72 percent of the county responded the first time, Mr. Moore said.
The county would like to improve that number.
“Most of our funding from federal and state sources is tied to population,” he said.
With the county's booming growth, officials need to make sure every new home is counted, he added.
Ken Hund, director of the Boone County Parks and Recreation Department, gave the group an update on the county's plan for parks.
More than 500 surveys have been returned and more will be sent out to public schools this week.
In mid-September, compiled results of programs and facilities that residents want will be available. The parks department will then seek opinions on those results.
The next joint meeting of the city council and fiscal court is Nov. 30.
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