A California superior court on Oct. 30 lifted a restraining order, allowing work to resume on a new courthouse in San Diego. Earlier, the San Diego Airport Authority (SDAA) had filed the temporary injunction after it discovered tower-crane boom heights at the nearby construction site were reaching 600 ft. That height exceeds the Federal Aviation Administration’s 512-ft limit for buildings and cranes in the runway approach path of aircraft—in this case, aircraft coming into San Diego International Airport, also known as Lindbergh Field.
The new $555-million Central Courthouse is about 1.25 nautical miles from the airport.