Something that has caused much controversy in the community of Burlington, VT is the chance of fighter planes called F35’s making their appearance and permanent stay at the Vermont National Guard and Burlington airport. The F35 fighter jets would be coming to Burlington to replace the current F16’s. The controversy surrounding the planes are basically that many residents are concerned about noise pollution especially those residents who live around the Burlington Airport in South Burlington. Not only are they afraid about more noise disrupting their everyday lives; they are also starting to worry about their properties declining in value because of the increased noise. There is also the argument about how much money these planes are going to cost the town, which seems to be more than 1 trillion dollars! Something that I found interesting was the amount of people that are for the F35s, including the Mayor, Miro Weinberger and Gov. Peter Shumlin. There are also many other people that are for having the F35s in town. Their reasons are that the F35s are much safer than the F16s and that there are many other benefits that involve the airport. Many people actually say that the F35s would be less noise than the F16. The other big opportunity that comes with the F35s is more jobs in and around Burlington, especially within the airport and National Guard. I believe that the F35s would be good for the community, especially because of the inflow of jobs that would come out of having these fighter planes here.
