Curfew advances for Bob Hope Airport

Local residents moved a step closer to a quiet night's sleep today as the airport authority announced it has completed an FAA-required study that could lead to mandatory nighttime curfews - with few exceptions - for flights in and out of Bob Hope Airport. Rick Coca in the Daily News.

Nearly eight years and more than $6 million dollars in the making, the latest incarnation of the study comes after the Federal Aviation Administration disagreed with several items in an earlier draft and sent it back to the commission in 2004.

On an 8-0 vote this morning, the revised "Part 161 Study," which was changed to include a larger area of homes affected by noise under the FAA's guidelines, will now go through a 45-day public comment period and other procedural requirements before going to the FAA for final approval, which might not come until summer 2009.