A bipartisan group of elected officials is urging Palm Beach County residents to use a little-known federal website to fight a plan that permanently moves commercial airplane noise away from President Donald Trump's Palm Beach home but over thousands of other houses.
Residents of Palm Beach and West Palm Beach south of downtown, who live under the flight paths from President Donald J. Trump International Airport, can go online to regulations.gov/commenton/FAA-2026-10827-0001 to lodge comments about the proposed regulation with the Federal Aviation Administration, they said on Wednesday, Sept. 9.
The deadline for public comments is Oct. 2.
U.S. Rep. Lois Frankel and County Commissioner Gregg Weiss — both Democrats — and Palm Beach Mayor Danielle
Moore, a Republican, have been demanding that the FAA extend that deadline, which would delay the launch of the flight path.
Proposed flight path takes planes over four times as many homes
During a news conference on the south side of Trump International, they encouraged residents to submit comments through the federal website urging an extension.
The FAA's proposal, published Sept. 2, would essentially enshrine temporary flight restrictions put in place on Oct. 20, 2025. The restrictions ban most flights over Trump's private club, even when he is away.
Instead of flying east over Southern Boulevard and Mar-a-Lago, departing flights instead head northwest over about 11,000 homes, four times as many as the previous flight path, which had been in place for years.
"We don't see any reasons to make the flight restrictions permanent," Frankel said.
But officials' requests to extend the public comment deadline, and for federal officials to justify the flight path changes to local officials, have been ignored, she said.
"They're pretty much blowing of the public, is what they're doing," Frankel said.
An amendment Frankel successfully proposed to a congressional funding bill in June would require the FAA to consult with Palm Beach County airport officials on the Mar-a-Lago no-fly zone. The bill has not yet been voted on in the House of Representatives, the lower chamber of Congress.
Trump long sought to direct planes away from Mar-a-Lago
Decades before he became president, Trump sought to move departing flights away from Mar-a-Lago, over others' homes. He sued in 1985 and again in 2010 over air flight noise.
When the FAA, at the reported behest of the Secret Service, changed departing flight paths in October 2025, officials there claimed it was for Trump's security.
After months of complaints from residents under the new flight paths, the FAA moved flight paths in January. Departing planes fly east, over neighborhoods north of Southern Boulevard, hooking north before they get within 1 nautical mile of Mar-a-Lago.
Palm Beach, West Palm Beach and Palm Beach County in December petitioned a federal appeals court to review the FAA's decision-making in establishing the temporary flight restrictions.
The aim of the court investigation is to find out if the FAA followed its own rules, Weiss and other supporters said at the time. That case is pending.
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