San Leandro, CA Noise Ordinances: Aircraft Noise (2026)

352 governs land uses within the airport safety zones established by the Alameda County Airport Land Use Commission for Metropolitan Oakland International Airport, whose flight paths cross San Leandro's northern edge even though the airport itself is Port of Oakland property. Subsection A lists noise, alongside height limits, air-navigation hazards, and ground safety, as one of the four air safety considerations the zone regulations exist to address, describing the concern as the exposure of persons on the ground to noise from aircraft operations, especially jet aircraft.

The operative controls are procedural rather than a decibel table: Subsection E bars the City from approving any land division or issuing any permit for development within the safety zone until the property owner records a noise and aviation easement, in a form prescribed by the City Attorney, granting the right of flight in the airspace above the site. Subsection F adds a second, separate requirement that a notice of aircraft over-flight be recorded with the Alameda County Recorder, including a map of the safety zone boundaries, before any land division or permit issues.

Both requirements are disclosure and consent mechanisms: they put the airport's noise and overflight impact on the property's title so future owners cannot claim they were unaware, rather than restricting how loud aircraft may fly.