Eastvale, CA Noise Ordinances: Aircraft Noise (2026)

Eastvale's noise ordinance, EMC Chapter 8.52, contains no aircraft-noise provision. The general sound-level table in EMC 8.52.040 governs sound created on one property that crosses onto another occupied property; it is not designed for and does not reach aircraft in flight. This gap is not an oversight but a matter of federal preemption. Under the Federal Aviation Act and the Noise Control Act of 1972, the federal government has exclusive sovereignty over the navigable airspace, and the U.S. Supreme Court held in City of Burbank v. Lockheed Air Terminal (1973) that this scheme preempts local efforts to control aircraft noise by regulating flight operations. As a result, the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) controls aircraft flight paths, altitudes, and operational noise; cities and counties cannot lawfully set decibel limits or curfews on aircraft overflights. Local governments retain a role chiefly through land-use planning (zoning near airports, the noise element of a general plan, and airport land-use compatibility planning), and an airport's own proprietor may impose certain operational limits, but a city like Eastvale cannot enforce a noise ordinance against an aircraft in flight. Residents bothered by overflight noise are generally directed to the operating airport's noise office or the FAA, not to city code enforcement. The closest scheduled-service airport is Ontario International (ONT) in adjacent San Bernardino County; Eastvale itself has no commercial airport.