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  • 2023-06-02

    Wrangling over the “Ramboll Report”

    In this article, we will refer back and forth between two very different documents. The first is the Community Health and Airport Operations Related Pollution Report. The second is a Powerpoint® review of that study the Port Commission received in May of 2021. A Timeline In 2019, the State of Washington passed HB 1109. This
    CategoriesChange The Culture TagsAir Quality Monitors, Newspaper Article, Steve Edmiston
  • 2023-05-16

    HB 1791: Peace With Honor

    The passage of 1791-S.PL acknowledges that the battle for a second airport process (known as the CACC) is lost. But, let’s pretend it’s not. However, if previous efforts (such as the Flight Plan Study of 1989) are any indication, HB-1791 will not only result in years of delay, it will actually work to accelerate the pace
    CategoriesChange The Culture TagsCACC, Commercial Aviation Coordinating Commission, HB1791, Second Airport
  • 2023-05-09

    Letter to Commission: Port Package Updates 3 Easy Steps

    An open letter to the Port of Seattle Commission It’s been almost three and a half years since the Accelerated Sound Insulation program was passed by the Port Commission in 2020. The primary goal was to get all units not started from 1996, which are now inhabited by mostly BIPOC families, (finally) completed by 2026.
    CategoriesChange The Culture TagsPort Package Program Updates, Port Packages, San Francisco International Airport
  • 2022-12-15

    Now

    The STNI 2023 State Legislative Agenda A letter to members of the Washington State House and Senate representing the airport communities. On behalf of SeaTacNoise.Info: As always, thank you for your efforts this year on behalf of airport communities. They are much appreciated.However, I write today to say that not only are we not moving
    CategoriesChange The Culture TagsKaren Keiser, Tina Orwall
  • 2022-11-06

    Letter to Commissioners: Port Package Pilot Program

    The following is a letter to the Port of Seattle Commissioners. A great difficulty in providing justice for the community is simply the fact that in any government, electeds come and go, but the staff persists. Dear Commissioners,Below is a Pilot Project, which addresses your concerns to quantify the need of Port Package Updates and
    CategoriesChange The Culture TagsPort Package Program Updates
  • 2022-10-17

    Section 163, Docket No. FAA-2022-1203: There’s a bigger game…

    The comment period for this draft policy rule change ended today. https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2022/09/15/2022-19665/draft-faa-policy-regarding-processing-land-use-changes-on-federally-acquired-or-federally-conveyed https://www.regulations.gov/document/FAA-2022-1203-0001 There are FAA policy changes like this all the time which are generally only noticed by people in ‘the biz’; especially if they don’t have any obvious connection with flight paths or noise or pollution. When we first started watching this sort
    CategoriesChange The Culture TagsLand Use, Policy, Section 163
  • 2022-10-16

    Boy, do we hate being right…

    I wrote the following article in 2018: *Why There Is No Second Airport In Site I’m throwing up that old news in light of the fact that yesterday, the Commercial Aviation Coordinating Commission (CACC) met its statutory obligation to deliver a recommendation on a ‘second airport’, basically by punting a final decision into 2023 which
    CategoriesChange The Culture TagsCACC, Commercial Aviation Coordinating Commission, Second Airport
  • A1 Revisited: Our coverage of 1970 protest showed neglect of vital Native issues

    Oct. 16, 2022 at 6:00 am Updated Oct. 16, 2022 at 11:19 am 1 of 14 | At Daybreak Star Indian Cultural Center, Randy Lewis (Wenatchi/Methow) speaks during a memorial service for Lawney Reyes on Aug. 26. Reyes was the brother of Bernie Whitebear and helped design Daybreak Star, on the former site… (Daniel Kim /
    CategoriesChange The Culture, From The Web, History TagsHenry M. Scoop Jackson, Native Americans, Seattle Times
  • 2022-10-12

    Port Package updates are essential to the American Dream

    A letter to the Commissioners of the Port of Seattle: explaining the history of Port Packages and their place in environmental justice. The American Dream is a safe, healthy home, at an affordable price, where you can raise your children, in one of the most beautiful areas in the world. But with so many Port Package failures and fewer and fewer new homes being eligible for sound insulation, that dream is becoming harder to achieve under the flight path.
    CategoriesChange The Culture TagsEnvironmental Justice, Port Package Program Updates, Port Packages
  • Microsoft Worklab: Great Expectations — Making Hybrid Work, Work

    Since the beginning of the COVID pandemic, Microsoft has been tracking the shift to remote work through their Worklab research division. But unlike other companies and pundits with various agenda, it has been doing something approaching unbiased research and legitimate analysis. Microsoft is doing a great public service in pursuing these studies. As we’ve pointed
    CategoriesChange The Culture, Resources TagsMicrosoft, Remote Work, Worklab

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Sea-Tac Airport is currently undergoing the largest and longest expansion in its history, collectively known as the Sustainable Airport Master Plan (SAMP). Some of it you can already hear, but you’re probably not aware of what it all means. Here’s what you need to know.
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As the source for federal transportation grants, the Puget Sound Regional Council was charged with developing a system to meet the growing need for commercial aviation. When the search for a second airport failed, they authorized the Port of Seattle to build the Third Runway, with a mandate to develop a noise abatement and mitigation program. In their effort to stop the Third Runway, the ACC argued over every detail of the Port's efforts--including property buyouts and sound insulation. The dispute was meant to be settled by a three member Expert Arbitration Panel. This is their final report. It finds 2-1, that the Port's program was insufficient in several respects. Despite that, funding for the Third Runway was approved by the PSRC, and the 'Port Package' program, proceeded largely unchanged. Expert Arbitration Panel's final decision finding that the Port of Seattle had not shown sufficient reduction in real on-the-ground noise impacts to satisfy noise reduction conditions required for approval of a third runway at Sea-Tac International Airport. The majority decision concluded the Port's noise abatement programs were insufficient despite being impressive in scope.
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