Online Open House and Virtual Public Meeting report PREPARED SEPTEMBER 13, 2022 | P a g e Executive Summary Overview Learning more about what is important to communities across Washington state is a crucial step for the CACC. To help learn about aviation priorities, the CACC held an online open house from August 15 to September 11, 2022. The online open house was available in English, Amharic, Arabic, Chinese (simplified and traditional), French, Japanese, Korean, Russian, Somali, Spanish, Tagalog, Thai, Tigrinya, and Vietnamese languages. Additionally, there was a call-in option for people who wanted the open house read to them, and two virtual public meetings held via Zoom on August 23 and 31, 2022. Promotion The primary audience for notification of the online open house was Washington residents west of the Cascades. The intent was to reach communities around the 10 greenfield locations as well as Bremerton National and Paine Field. Residents in the rest of the state were a secondary statewide audience. To promote the online open house, WSDOT distributed a press release in English and Spanish to statewide media; distributed partner toolkits to CACC members and CBOs who requested copies; and published organic and paid social media posts. Input The online open house received nearly 60,000 page views from an estimated 20,000 users. Of users, 1,121 provided their zip codes. Most users were from Washington state, with one participant from outside of Washington. The highest number of participants was from King County (392), followed by Thurston (209), Skagit…Open full document
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The online open house received nearly 60,000 page views from an estimated 20,000 users. Of users, 1,121 provided their zip codes. Most users were from Washington state, with one participant from outside of Washington. The highest number of participants was from King County (392), followed by Thurston (209), Skagit (177), Pierce (143), and Snohomish (93) counties. Users shared input by answering multiple choice and open-ended questions, as well as through a comment form. While the questions and comment forms were available in the 15 languages cited about, the users that responded to the online open house questions did so via the English version of the online
open house. Users provided a total of 60,320 multiple choice responses and 12,429 comments. The virtual public meetings were attended by 304 people. Meeting participants submitted 217 questions or comments during the meetings, and 63 people took the post-meeting survey. The most common questions and comments at the virtual public meetings expressed opposition to the East King County site (69), with other common themes including environmental impacts (29), questions about airport sponsors (16), and questions or comments about the CACC process (10)