State Rep. Marty Moylan has announced he will convene a meeting of his new O’Hare Airport Noise Advisory Committee next month in Park Ridge.
The meeting is scheduled for Thursday, Feb. 12, at 7 p.m. at Park Ridge City Hall, 505 Butler Place. In a press release issued Thursday, Moylan, a Democrat from Des Plaines, explained that the meeting is open to residents with concerns about aircraft noise.
“My goal for this group is to work on practicable and economically viable solutions to the growing presence of airplane noise,” Moylan said in his statement. He added that he will be inviting officials from the Chicago Department of Aviation and the Federal Aviation Administration, as well as local members of congress.
Though Moylan indicated he will be “reaching out to grassroots organizations to join the committee and have their voices represented,” Jim Argionis, chairman of Park Ridge’s O’Hare Airport Commission, said Thursday that he had not been informed of the Feb. 12 meeting.
Upon learning about it from the Park Ridge Herald-Advocate, Argionis said he would inform the Park Ridge commission members, as well as Chicago’s Fair Allocation in Runways Coalition.
Moylan announced in December that he would be forming a committee to address “the ongoing problem” of noise generated by flights taking off from and landing at O’Hare. Meetings would also allow for community input, he said.
At the time, Park Ridge Mayor David Schmidt called the group “a little redundant,” due to the existence of similar groups.