SAMP Draft EA: Our running list of questions

The one thing we hear over and over from community members re. the SAMP Draft EA is “What do I say?” “How do I get started?” We get it. One way we want to help is to provide some of our questions, which we’ll be updating frequently before submitting our full comment before the December

Burien City Council October 28 (SAMP Draft EA)

Good questions. But the same questions. Some excellent questions from councilmembers after the presentation (27:54). Followed by a pointed comment from Burien Airport Committee vice-chair Brian Davis (52:20). Our take The Burien City Council is currently facing the same challenges as everyone else in knowing how to respond to the SAMP. To a certain extent,

Port Commission Meeting features SAMP EA and Tax Levy

Four hours, 700 pages Meeting Agenda It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends on his not understanding it.   Sustainable Airport Master Plan Draft EA Presentation (Item #11a SAMP EA Presentation) Sarah Potter: Landrum & Brown, Steve Rybold and Sarah Cox: Port of Seattle Today’s Commission meeting was

SAMP NTP Comment Process

31 projects in 45 days? The SAMP Draft EA documents are now available here: The Sustainable Airport Master Plan Near Term Projects (SAMP NTP) is a collection of 31 construction projects that will increase flights over the next decade by as much as a new runway, but without building a new runway. The environmental review

Port of Seattle votes on Q3 2025 timetable for North Sea-Tac Park

Property leases at North Sea-Tac Park. Source City of SeaTac

Language of order still leaves ultimate ownership uncertain At the Tuesday, October 8 noon meeting of the Port of Seattle Commission, the Commission voted to approve an amended version of Order 2012: Amended Order #2024-12 (sub) The amended version, created by Felleman and Mohamed, does not make any firm decision. Instead, it directs Port staff

Port of Seattle to vote to permanently restrict North Sea-Tac Park for recreational use

1989 King County Ordinance setting aside land for North Sea-Tac Park

However, language of order leaves ultimate ownership uncertain At the Tuesday, October 8 meeting of the Port of Seattle Commission (Sea-Tac Airport Mezzanine 12:00pm), the following Order will be discussed and voted on: “The Port Commission hereby directs the Executive Director to undertake the Port activities necessary to meet the requirements described in Section 706

City Council approves Des Moines Creek West purchase from Port

At their September 26, 2024 meeting, the Des Moines City Council voted 7-0 to complete the sale of Tract C in exchange for $690,000 a connecting road between the existing complex and the expansion. An amendment to the sale was made by Councilmember JC Harris setting aside 10% ($69,000) of the proceeds towards a City airport

City Council to decide on Des Moines Creek West purchase from Port

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

SR-509 Surplus, a tale of two cities

Figure A. SR-509 Surplus at 216th St.

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