Garland, TX Noise Ordinances: Aircraft Noise (2026)

Section 22.72, in Article V, Noise Control, states that all airport, airpark, and aircraft operations within the City "must be conducted in all respects in accordance with or pursuant to applicable laws and regulations" of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and the FAA. Unlike the sections around it, the section sets no local dBA ceiling, no curfew, and no separate city permit or complaint process; it is a one-sentence deferral, adopted with the rest of the noise article by Ordinance 5544 on 3/20/01 and never separately amended since.

That places aircraft noise outside the numeric land-use limits Section 22.69 sets for other sources and outside the specific-noise list in Section 22.70 that covers everything from power equipment to motor vehicles. The City Health Department, which Section 22.77 makes responsible for enforcing the rest of the noise article, has no equivalent enforcement role here because the section creates no local standard to enforce; a resident's recourse for aircraft noise runs to the FAA and, for airport operations specifically, to whichever agency (municipal, county, or private) operates the affected airfield.

Garland is not itself a certificated commercial-airport operator; the general aviation activity nearest the city, including the Dallas/Fort Worth Heloplex-area heliports, falls under FAA jurisdiction the same way Section 22.72 describes.