BAC SP Notes 0001

Last evening at our August meeting, Nancy asked that I review the attachments to July's meeting minutes handout regarding 1) Debbie's summary of Sea-Tac history concerning the history of regional airport planning, and 2) Notes completed by Tony Piasecki after several of us met to write a an outline for a white paper. In response, today I re-read Debbie's chronology of Sea-Tac milestones consistent with planning for an additional regional airport and I thought they were succinct, thorough, and I really couldn't add anything new to them except to re-enforce the origin and timing of the Four- Post Plan; but I think this is an important archive for us to use as reference and mention in our white paper that this effort has been stalled since the early 1990s–almost 30 years ago! Tony Piasecki's notes from our July meeting were consistent with my fading memory of what we discussed and it's good to have them, even if they contain some incomplete thoughts. I commit to working on a draft white paper with one caveat: I have some serious and non-negotiable time commitments until September 16 that prevent me from starting this task until then. If our next committee meeting is after 9/16, then I will attempt to have a draft ready by then. Further, I want to share with committee rnembers an analysis I completed last week that uses recent Port handouts to the committee and Part 150 excerpts (Sea-Tac online) that suggest that, based upon recently reported aircraft operations…
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