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F-35 noise a concern to some at public hearing

Last updated Wednesday, May 2, 2012 - 7:40am

LAYTON — If one statement summed up public officials’ assessment of the environmental impact of basing F-35 fighter jets in Utah, it was one by Utah Sen. Jerry Stevenson, R-Layton.

Yes, he said, the F-35 will be noisier than the F-16s flown by wings at Hill, but “I don’t believe the noise level of the F-35 is going to cause any ill effects other than we may stand a little straighter when they fly overhead.”

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Hill details how the F-35 will impact the Top of Utah

Mitch Shaw Standard-Examiner

Last updated Friday, April 13, 2012 - 10:11pm

HILL AIR FORCE BASE — With Hill Air Force Base the top candidate for the new F-35 fighter mission, the Air Force has released a document detailing how the jet will likely impact the Top of Utah.

The Air Force released its F-35 Operational Draft Environmental Impact Statement on Friday, which examines impacts the jet will have on noise, land use, air and water quality, and safety.

In July 2010, Hill was chosen as the Air Force’s preferred alternative for the location of the first two operational squadrons of the advanced F-35 stealth fighter.

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Florence Parker Allen and her nephew Lyle Johnston, who takes care of her 16-acre farm at 5000 W. 1937 North in unincorporated Davis County, are seen Thursday. Allen is applying to a conservation board to be placed in an agricultural protection zone, which would protect her from nuisance complaints if the area around her farm is developed. (KENDAL RUSSELL/Standard-Examiner)

Rezone would shield two Davis farms from nuisance complaints

Bryon Saxton Standard-Examiner

Last updated Monday, March 19, 2012 - 9:36pm

FARMINGTON — The owners of two certified Utah Century Farms in Davis County are applying to a conservation board to be placed in an agricultural protection zone.

It is the first time in six years such a request has been made in Davis County.

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Traffic congestion increases as parents pick up students at Syracuse Arts Academy in 2009. School officials, parents of students and area residents are concerned because the West Davis Corridor Alternative B would run just hundreds of feet from the school and an interchange would run through an existing parking lot. Many worry about increased noise and air pollution will affect the students' learning environment. (Standard-Examiner file photo)

Syracuse Arts Academy worries about corridor route alternative

Mitch Shaw Standard-Examiner

Last updated Saturday, March 17, 2012 - 4:50pm

SYRACUSE — One of the state’s final two options for the West Davis Corridor has officials at the Syracuse Arts Academy worried about the school’s future learning environment.

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Syracuse group: Bluff Road option doesn't consider human impacts

Mitch Shaw Standard-Examiner

Last updated Tuesday, March 6, 2012 - 7:25am

SYRACUSE — After some public uproar over changes to the West Davis Corridor, the Utah Department of Transportation says its new route will have fewer impacts and will cost less money than the old one.

But a group of Syracuse residents says a number of human impacts aren’t being considered.

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UDOT noise rules likely affect Top of Utah road projects

Mitch Shaw Standard-Examiner

Last updated Monday, December 12, 2011 - 11:26pm

LAYTON -- Noise levels on state roads will be a little lower in the future.

The Utah Department of Transportation recently revised its noise-abatement regulations, adding new projects that will require noise studies and increasing the minimum noise-reduction levels that must be met for proposed noise walls.

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Officials: Hill fixing safety, health violations

Mitch Shaw Standard-Examiner

Last updated Tuesday, October 25, 2011 - 6:19am

HILL AIR FORCE BASE -- After being issued citations for health violations this summer, Hill Air Force Base officials now say the base is on the way back to compliance.