[ecomcon]

He pointed to studies showing that homes located near airports lose almost two percent of their property value per decibel level emitted by jumbo jets.

Per decibel? Starting where? Maybe 2% per decibel above a certain threshold, but something's not right here.

[Owl4USA]

And I don't know if the value of the homes was even LOWERED. Since the airport was there before those track homes in 99% of the cases, the homes were probably pretty damn cheep to begin with. If the airport finally vanished these people would see an unearned, undeserved INCREASE in their property value.