Fifteen Percent?

1Below is the full text of a letter we received from Ryan McMullan, the Senior Manager for Noise Programs in response to our concerns about the 2024-04 Sound Insulation Repair and Replacement Pilot Program. If you’ve been following along, in May, the Port began an ‘assessment’ phase to last until December 31. This is supposedly

Port Package Update Survey: more questions than answers

Sample question from SIRRPP Survey
Sample question from SIRRPP Survey

Including only a third of the homes is not the half of it As we’ve been reporting, the Port Package Update program, now called the Sound Insulation Repair/Replacement Pilot Program has had pitfalls at every turn. The most obvious concern we had is that the survey was sent to 3,200 homes, which is only a

Let’s fix the program to fix Port Packages!

Timeline from Highline Forum SIRRPP Presentation
Timeline from Highline Forum SIRRPP Presentation

May 28, 2024 Public Comment to the Port of Seattle Commission on SIRRPP Commissioners, I think it’s fair to say that when we all worked so hard last winter to create a Port Package Update program–now formally known as the Sound Insulation Repair/Replacement Pilot Program (SIRRPP), stakeholders such as our over 1,000 members assumed we’d

Port Package Update Call To Action: Postcards

Make a public comment on May 28th to improve the assessment process After the passage of State law SB5955 and the Port’s Order 2024-04, the Port said it would begin developing a repair/replacement program for failing sound insulation systems (Port Packages). The Order says that the first step was to do an assessment of all

Part 150 is SAMP Part #1

Attend June 5, 6 and 8 workshops to learn about new noise boundaries Sea-Tac Airport is undertaking a Part 150 Study, a section of FAA regulations governing community noise impacts. These studies take several years to complete, but you should care now and attend the June 5, June 6 or June 8, Workshops for a

Farm To Fly: Greenwashing at your expense

Proposal would subsidize farmers to grow crops to create aviation fuel The Farm To Fly Act is the most basic reason STNI has never endorsed so-called sustainable aviation fuels. In theory, aviation fuels created exclusively from scrap biomass may pollute less and might create fewer greenhouse gases than fossil fuels. However, the amount of such available material

‘Insufficient’ Land Stewardship Plan passes

Tree cover in Port-owned property near airport and Auburn Mitigation area
Tree cover in Port-owned property near airport and Auburn Mitigation area

High ideals held back by limiting only to immediate airport property Today’s Commission meeting approved the Port’s Land Stewardship Plan. Unfortunately the plan has a glaring defect: it only applies to property on the ‘triple a’, which renders it almost neutered. One member of the public described it as ‘completely insufficient’ and we must agree.

April 15, 2024 Protest Q&A from King County Prosecutor’s Office

King County Leaders, Sharing a note that we sent to reporters within the past hour who had questions about yesterday’s protest at Sea-Tac International Airport (SEA). Please reach out if you have any additional questions for us. -Douglas Douglas E. Wagoner, MPA (He/Him) Deputy Director of Communications King County Prosecuting Attorney’s Office O (206) 514-7643