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To: scott who wrote (12255)	10/29/1999 12:06:00 PM
From: Hardly B. Solipsist	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 19080

This article is somewhat misleading, although it does hint at the issues involved. The San Jose Mercury news has run more complete stories on this. What's stupid about the regulation is that it classifies airplanes by gross weight when fully loaded, not by the noise they make. What LE is saying is more to the point than it sounds -- people just like to make fun of him. Someone heavy can't go into the convenience store after 6PM, but someone weighing less with a big boom-box turned up all the way on their shoulder can, in the name of reducing noise. The two things are not that tightly coupled... This article is misleading about the regulation, too. It's a federal regulation that San Jose is required to enforce or they might be forced to give back any federal funds used to build the airport. One city official admitted in the paper that the rule was stupid but said that they didn't have any option. I seem to recall that the article explained something about the rule being really hard to change because it was part of some ancient funding act, but I can't remember much about that.