(10:30) Santa Cruz County – The flight path has been changed back to its original ground track, over Santa Cruz and the San Lorenzo Valley ridgeline. The Select Committee on the South Bay Arrivals voted in favor for the change at last nights (Thursday) Palo Alto City Hall meeting. The new criteria for the flight path are as follows: altitudes equal to or preferably higher than the historic path, waypoints that achieve a quiet, gliding descent, the avoidance of noisy breaking and a minimum altitude of 12,500 feet when planes cross the Santa Cruz County coastline. The plan will go into effect after January 2018.
