Concerned Lucketts area residents gathered at Lucketts Community
Center Wednesday evening to express their dissatisfaction and
worries about a planned drone flight facility near the village.
The company Xelevate, headed by president and co-founder Marcy
Eisenberg, recently bought 66 mostly wooded acres off Taylorstown
Road near Barnhouse Place to create the drone site. The facility
will be a training and test site, where everyone from local
students to the federal government can learn pilot drones and test
out new designs. Eisenberg and other members of her team told
locals that they hope the drones will not disrupt neighbors'
peace and quiet.
Attorney Colleen Gillis of Cooley LLP, representing the company,
pledged the property will be at least as wooded as it is now and
that virtually all of the drones will fly below the treetops, with
a few exceptions. She also pointed to county ordinances that permit
no more than 55 decibels of noise at the boundary of the
