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Last Saturday, I was invited to Darby Park for Councilman Dotson’s Day in the Park event for Inglewood, District 1. As a community member, I attended to inform District 1 residents on how to report noise pollution that is caused by LAX air traffic. Our current Residential Sound Insulation program does not benefit all District 1 property owners and my intention is to push LAX Noise to expand RSI benefits to those that have been excluded. In addition, I wanted to inform the community that Inglewood Unified School District Board meetings are now in-person.

It was a shock that while I was informing the community on their rights to report noise pollution to LAX Noise, I was discouraged by doing so by Councilman Dotson and his staff. Mr. Dotson tried to have police officers that were working at his event to ask me to leave the public park in efforts to stop me from giving information to our community. Of course, I did not leave the public park and I certainly did not stop informing our community. 

It is clear this event was just a photo opportunity for Mr. Dotson and he had no intention of engaging with the community about the issues we would like addressed. Our absentee Councilman was nowhere to be found when Warren Lane Elementary School was being closed, when we needed him to address the safety at Circle Park, and now this. 

I encourage everyone to ask for accountability. What has he done for us lately? Mr. Dotson needs to explain his actions and plans for the future of our community. 

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Thank you Taj for informing residents and letting us know of Councilman’s deplorable actions. As citizens we do need to report airplane noise especially now that there are projections that LAWA will see an uptick in airplane flights over the next years. I know there are residents who have just discovered reporting with that agency. Clearly our elected officials have no intention with assistance and an interest in disinformation.

Through the years indeed the complaint line for Noise related to Air traffic from Los Angles World Airports (aka LAX) has changed.

For those who have not updated their “where to call number” it is :

(424) 646-6473 easily remembered as 424-64 NOISE

This number can be used to report those airplanes off the traditional flight path as well as those who appear lower than they should be.

Those wanting to view historic flight information may find the Webtrak site at :

https://webtrak.emsbk.com/lax4

As many know Mike Stevens and LAXEN, a group of many Inglewood (and other airport impacted community) residents For many years have worked long and hard to mitigate the many impacts of Airport Operations on our Communities.

It is The Alliance for a Regional Solution to Airport Congestion ARSAC which continues that work responding to Enviornmental Impact reports for expansion and Improvement plans to bring awareness to those voting members of Los Angeles -the owners of LAX – of the many continued impacts of LAX.

With regard to “Sound insulation” – dollars have been awarded to the “Airport adjacent Areas” including the City of Inglewood which administers that money for homes within the specific NOISE IMPACTED ZONES not all of which are in District 1. Per a combination of Federal Aviation Administration studies and Los Angeles City Council actions millions of dollars have been made to insulate homes and the Inglewood Unified schools with in the impact Zones.

The City of Inglewood was responsible for awarding the contracts for home insulation within the impact areas, while the IUSD board members were responsible for sound attenuation of the schools. As an example consider the new Ballmer Bowl site was “parcel assembled” utilizing sound dollars (combined with redevelopment dollars) not to insulate apartments buildings but instead to eradicate them.

If the City of Inglewood and the Inglewood School District did not choose manage those funds wisely it is “OUR INGLEWOOD ELECTED” we should hold responsible rather than LAWA or the FAA.

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