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City Council Meeting Minutes September 7, 2021 Page 4 of 8 adopting some of the recommendations from the earlier ABCx2 consultant report including noise mitigation. Councilmember Lipton asked Michael Burek, Louisville resident and data scientist, for a presentation of his research and information on aircraft traffic visualizations. Burek stated the presentation shows the data of flight activity from RMMA and overflights over Louisville; it is not interpreting that data. His information focused on June 2021 flights overpassing Louisville. He reviewed his methodology noting the flight counts were unique flights over Louisville from RMMA. Burek reviewed the visualizations of the flight data from June including altitude, frequency, time of day, and flight paths. He reviewed the increase in the number of flights since 2019 and a comparison of flights over municipalities to the south of the airport. Councilmember Lipton stated he hopes to have Burek give this same presentation to the CNR to see if it can help in the development of flight paths that might get more voluntary compliance and the use of flight corridors that have a lower impact on the communities north of the airport. He noted this is the beginning of a long journey. Councilmember Brown stated it is clear from this presentation that the communities to the north of the airport are suffering the brunt of the noise. Public Comments Vicki Lawrence, 511 West Spruce Lane, state the airplane noise has increased greatly over the years. She said the flights are at all hours and all days of the week. She should like the City to see a decrease in existing flights not just work to keep the airport from expanding flights. Bri Lehman, Lafayette resident, pooling time with Deborah Atchison, stated Lafayette has petitioned to join the CNR. She stated she represents the Save Our Skies alliance and they are concerned about air traffic safety, local control, and other issues, but also noise. She stated the leaded exhaust fuel of the planes puts a large amount of lead into the atmosphere to the detriment of people's health and water. Kat Moriarty, 1457 Hyacinth Way, Superior, asked if this presentation could be presented to the Superior Board of Trustees. Konstantin Azarov, 581 Spruce Circle, stated the RMMA noise procedures are inadequate and don't give pilots good information on where to fly to be less intrusive. He feels better more detailed noise abatement procedures would be a good first step and likely doesn't require FAA approval.