Expansion Plans At Georgia’s 2nd Busiest Airport Put Neighbors On Edge

DeKalb-Peachtree Airport expects a 37 percent increase in the number of airplanes coming in and out of the airport over the next 20 years.

David Tulis / Associated Press

It’s sometimes easy to forget the second-busiest airport in the state is nestled inside the Perimeter in northern DeKalb County.

It’s not so easy for Chris Kaiser, who lives in Brookhaven just blocks away from DeKalb-Peachtree Airport. He said noise from planes flying over his house have been an annoyance in recent years.

“There was a point when I would get woken up constantly around midnight from planes,” he said. “Then I got ear plugs.”