Locals outraged after nearby airport caters to private jets in the middle of the night: 'Similar to your [neighbor] starting up a chainsaw'

Locals outraged after nearby airport caters to private jets in the middle of the night: 'Similar to your [neighbor] starting up a chainsaw'

Residents of Nelson, New Zealand, begged officials to do something about noisy overnight private jet activity at a recent forum, the Press reported. Nelson Airport is New Zealand's fifth-busiest, "surrounded on three sides" by otherwise quiet suburbs. At the meeting, locals like Lewis Solomon of the Association of Residents for the Environment at Nelson Airport (ARENA) acknowledged that they anticipated aircraft activity would generate a reasona…