Mitigate schmitigate
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- September
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Rockland County filed its lawsuit against the Federal Aviation Administration yesterday on the FAA’s home turf, Washington, D.C. Likely this won’t give the FAA a homecourt advantage; seems those who know the FAA are even less enamored with the way the federal agency operates. Rockland’s lawsuit basically says FAA didn’t follow its own rules when it came up with the plan to reconfigure airspace over a 31,000-square-mile area. (It’s really fun to read how they “mitigated” the impact. They make a plan. Then they look at ways to lessen the impact of their own plan. Basically, they “mitigate” something that doesn’t really exist, except on paper.)
Well, this lawsuit that’s landing in the U.S. Court of Appeals will be interesting to watch. There are plenty of Connecticut, Bergen and Westchester communities that find themselves with a flight corridor overhead, and don’t believe they had much of a voice. Pound Ridge is holding a meeting this morning on the plan’s impact, and how the community should react. Let’s hope they look at supporting Rockland’s suit, and the county looks at, and considers supporting, their ideas as well. The problem with this redesign is beyond more planes coming over certain people’s homes. It’s about failed public participation and lax attention to what was below as the FAA moved around lines in the sky.
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on Friday, September 14th, 2007 at 7:46 am by Nancy Cutler.
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