Last week’s planning commission meeting was disturbing.

Despite vocal opposition from nearby residents and the Chilkat Indian Village, Commissioners Diana Lapham, Don Turner and Richard Clement voted to allow yet another heliport in our small community.

Prior to the three-to-two vote, Lapham said she had helicopters flying over her house everyday and that the noise didn’t bother her. Apparently that counted for more than the many people who wrote or spoke saying that the noise…