Van Nuys Airport residents demand noise wall but officials push a land swap plan

Van Nuys Airport residents demand noise wall but officials push a land swap plan

For more than 20 years, Suzanne Gutierrez has lived right next to the Van Nuys Airport, watching the jets taxi just beyond a low fence and a line of trees. But she says the roar of planes has never been as relentless as it is now, with a surge in private and charter flights rattling windows and leaving her worried about what she can’t see in the fumes. She lives in “The Pocket,” a cluster of around 200 single-family homes along Hayvenhurst Avenu…