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Small parcel big step to enable controversial expansion of business park [09/19/2024]The City Council has added this item to their September 26 Agenda (6:00pm). [09/12/2024]At their September 12 meeting, the City Council held over this decision until October. We will provide notice as soon as it is scheduled. Please note that this sale is not
Background information on SR-509 WSDOT Surplus purchases by SeaTac and Des Moines along the 18th Ave Corridor For decades WSDOT owned surplus property along a corridor roughly parallel to 18th Ave., from 194th St. in SeaTac south through Des Moines as part of a previous plan for SR-509. The final (very different) alignment for SR-509
The Port of Seattle has launched a series of short films called ‘Elevated’ celebrating the 75th anniversary of Sea-Tac Airport. We think they are all worth watching, but this one, on the Third Runway, especially as it gives ‘their side of the story’. We object to almost every aspect of this video. Much of it
55 or 200 Acres? There’s a lot more to this story The SeaTac City Council held a ninety minute Special Meeting (Agenda/Presentation) to discuss various options in purchasing the area known as North SeaTac Park, which is now (mostly) owned by the Port of Seattle. As Councilmember Peter Kwon mentioned at the beginning of the
You can handle 100,000,000 passengers a year… Today, at the Boeing Museum Of Flight, the Port of Seattle premiered the first in a series of videos charting the history and growth of Sea-Tac Airport. The videos, collectively titled Elevated, were introduced by Port CEO Stephen Metruck, who spoke about the challenges of continuing to serve
Successor to CACC re-opens second airport discussion The first meeting of the new Commercial Aviation Work Group was held on July 11, 2024 in Tumwater. This group, created by HB1791 is the successor to the ill-fated Commercial Aviation Coordinating Committee (CACC) which ended last year after failing to identify any path to a second airport
Unexpected community response leads to discussion on improved environmental remediation The July 9, 2024 meeting of the Port of Seattle Commission marked a small but potentially meaningful victory for the Des Moines community. Item 8d Des Moines Creek West Tract C on their consent agenda was to sign off on the sale of the last
Changing the noise discussion from personal opinion to public health Annoyance, is the term of art describing a level of unwanted and/or harmful sound that is not damaging to hearing. That is how it was first used in research literature. We think it’s time to come up with a new term because ‘annoyance’ is dismissive
Below is the 1full 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
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
