NOISE: Sounding off on some concerns

In response to Mr. Steed, I agree with most your comment because I didn’t just build a house by the airport, bucko. I’ve been in my 1947 home in the Garden District Coeur d’Alene for 25 years. My husband was born and raised here (we met behind Dairy Delight at a keg party in ’79 when I was working at Sambos and lived next to Rathskellers), so don’t assume.

Again the sky noise level, traffic is above my downtown home. I enjoy cloudy days more nowadays because the air traffic is less. In the summer the air traffic noise is non-stop all hours. We have noise level laws and quiet times on the ground. Why isn’t the air traffic noise not included? 

It’s gotten way worse, annoying, distracting, excessively loud, low flying, too much in the past few years. I remember barely hearing the seaplane in the summer; which ended in a midair fatal crash with a tourist plane. 

The airport has been talking about going commercial. It already is, and more daily traffic than the Spokane Airport, and a tower (safety concerns). They need to include no-fly zones, noise levels and times, and respect others. 

We don’t care to see or hear them. Fly above Mr. Steed’s home.

SHERRIE WATSON

Coeur d’Alene