[happertiger]

This is true. If you live near an airport the disclosure is required by law if you buy a house in the are.

However, it doesn’t preclude expansion and changes. If for example your airport moves from 12 hour a day to round-the-clock flights... nothing you can do.

It’s a sticky wicket.

[Carpetsmoker]

Not all noise complains are from people who actually live near airports. I already linked this in my other reply, but: https://arstechnica.com/science/2017/01/former-astronaut-fil...

> located five miles from Reagan National Airport.

That's not really close. The reason there are planes there is due to the flight paths:

> To reach Reagan National through the congested and closely monitored DC airspace, flights must basically follow the Potomac River. The problem for Vittori's neighborhood is compounded by the fact that the airport recently adopted a new flight navigation system known as NextGen to help cut carbon emissions and reduce fuel consumption. This brought planes directly over his Georgetown neighborhood.

Also see the other commenter whose living 12 miles from the airport!

[chii]

Cities should of course be building airports outside of the city!

[gambiting]

And they do, but of course cities expand. What might have been an airport in the middle of nowhere 30 years ago, might be a city airport nowadays.

[accnumnplus1]

Exactly. Heathrow was setup as an airport in the middle of the last century, and continues to be used as if London hasn't grown in that time, and won't grow in the future. With plans to extend. I regularly get woken at 4:30am. Undoubtedly, at some point during the day I'll see headlines or commentary about mental health or strain on the NHS. I wonder how many would be feeling considerably better if they simply weren't subjected to sleep deprivation and a plane flying overhead every 120 seconds.

[sargun]

Doesn’t this somewhat defeat the purpose of the airport?

[chii]

Not if they could put in good mass transit to and from the airport.

Airports, like heavy industries, should be outside the city limits, away from populations.

[gambiting]

By that logic, London should build their airport about 2 hours by train away from the city, because anything within <2h radius is still within highly populated zones.

[Retric]

2 hours by HSR is a very long way ~300 miles from London. In reality, 50 miles north east of London is farm land.

The core problem is when you build an airport you decrease the value of all nearby property. If people building airports directly compensated people say 50,000$ each property they would build airports in the middle of nowhere and opposition would likely be minimal. Instead people suddenly hate where their living but can’t afford to move.

[gambiting]

Not everything is connected by HSR. Getting from Heathrow to city centre can take ~1.5h on public transport, and that's like ~15 miles in straight line.

[bobthepanda]

The problem is that access to the airport becomes a location amenity for some businesses, which in turn will draw housing for workers, and eventually the city will envelop the airport.

[Symbiote]

It's easy to forbid residential (or all) development under the flight paths.