BAC SP #2 Debi Wagner To Nancy Tosta On Draft Council Resolutions 20171018 0001

Email on 10/18/17 to Nancy Tosta and Debi Wagner regarding redrafting of the draft Council resolution +_ B Hi Nancy, redrafted paragraph 5 to read as follows: "5. Whereas the BAC examined Sea-Tac growth projections and determined that, recent actual, annual operational growth rates of 7-12% (a 9% average annual increase from 2013-2016) continubincidentally an amount 51% greater than projections contained in its 2013-2018 Part 150 Study–Sea-Tac will be dramatically constrained to safely provide any additional capacity beyond 2025 and...." if The point being made in this paragraph is that we now know that Sea-Tac's Part 150 projections severely underestimated annual operations. Remember that an operation is a landing or a departure and involves an aircraft flying over our neighborhoods. According to Sea-Tac’s own handout and presentation to BAC on 4/18/17, they projected that by 2034 there would be an additional 1 ,479 flights/day; and BAC concluded this level would occur by 2025. Consequently, residents in South King County, including Burien, will experience a dramatic increase of nearly 1,500 ADDITIONAL flights/day within eight years (actually more like seven since this year is almost finished). The reason I get "fired up" at>out these statistics is that: Sea-Tac hired nationally-recognized consultants costing tens of thousands of dollars to accomplish the task of estimating operations for its Part 150 Study to cover a period from 2013-2018. (A Part 150 Study by Sea-Tac probably costs between $1-2 million.) Either the consultants are no better than weathermen in forecasting temperatures, or their estimates missed the…

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