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Airport Ordinance Debate
A property rights fight is heating up in a Westside neighborhood.
In March, City Council President Daniel Davis promised a repeal of a noise ordinance that restricts certain homeowners who live near airports from building on their properties.
Davis is expected to meet with hundreds of homeowners living near Whitehouse Field at the Trinity Baptist Church auditorium at 800 Hammond Boulevard.
Nona Spencer has a home on Old Plank Road that she says is hindered by the law. "You can't build on vacant property. If your house burns or whatever you can't rebuild, and I understand they won't allow you to extend on your property."
The ordiance also prohibits new schools or churches from being built in the sound buffer zone. Despite, Davis's committment to trash the ordiance, city lawmakers are hearing from Jacksonville's Chamber of Commerce and the U.S. Navy to keep the rules in place.
The ordiance effects about 8,000 residents near White House, but Spencer warns as many as 25,000 homeowners city-wide are also impacted due to noise from other air fields.
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