Relief to residents: FAA announces $20.5 million to soundproof homes near LAX

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The grants will go toward 1,300 properties in Los Angeles, El Segundo, Inglewood and unincorporated parts of the county.

in Santa Ana. Residents often crowd community meetings to request different flight routing options and limits to noise pollution.“It’s kind of like blinking. When you bring attention to it, you’re kind of aware you’re blinking,” said Adam Rosas, 21, an Inglewood resident for more than 10 years. “If I’m minding my own business, it’s not really a problem.”In a soundproofing program that ran from 1997 to 2014, 89% of eligible L.A.

More than 7,000 homes in Inglewood have already been soundproofed, including 69-year-old Asuncion Reynoso’s one-story house a couple of miles from the airport.Reynoso said a similar program about 10 years ago outfitted his home of more than 30 years with thick windows and air conditioning, which helps keep the noise at a comfortable level.“You get used to noise. Some people when they come visit, they say, ‘Oh,’” Reynoso said, imitating his guests’ grimaces.

found that in previous rounds of soundproofing grants in Inglewood, middle-class, single-family neighborhoods on the city’s east side disproportionately receive funding — at least in part because of tricky zoning preventing improvements closer to the airport. Mayor James Butts said the lower-income neighborhoods closer to the airport are also filled with rental properties whose landlords don’t keep the places up to code — a requirement to receive the FAA grants.

 

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Houses must be “up to code”. They watch HGTV like the rest of us. Code violations everywhere.

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