1999-09-08
City of Burien City of Tukwila City of Des Moines City of Federal Way City of Normandy Park Highline School District AIRPORT COMMUNITIES COALITION September 8, 1999 To the Editor: It’s never too late to save over a billion dollars in public funds. It’s not too late to ease freeway gridlock. And it’s not
By Mildred Andrews Posted 1/14/1999 HistoryLink.org Essay 679 On Armistice Day, November 11, 1921, members of the Seattle Garden Club, led by President Lillian Gustin McEwan, planted the first 25 elm trees along Des Moines Way S (later renamed Des Moine Memorial Drive) — the beginning of a living memorial to “American men who gave
The City of Des Moines, located 15 miles south of Seattle along the shores of Puget Sound, has never been a large center of industry like other Seattle suburbs. Although it incorporated as recently as 1959, it has been a Northwest community for more than 100 years. Europeans first saw the high bluffs of Des
1997-02-07
an excerpt from the 1997 Sea-Tac International Airport Impact Mitigation Study Overview There is no doubt that the expansion of Sea-Tac International Airport will have a positive economic benefit for the region and the State. However, the costs associated with these improvements are disproportionately borne by those communities immediately surrounding the Airport. Communities such as
Jack Broom Seattle Times Staff Reporter Let’s say you’ve been looking for a better view, but you don’t want to leave the neighborhood. Instead, you bring in fill dirt to raise your property so you can see over all your neighbors. Somehow you get the dirt to form a nice column straight up from your
SEATTLE - Cedar Caunt;y. Casade County. Enumclaw County. Sll)l1coml&h County. Pioneer Counl)'. WhlLehorse
Counl)'. A lla ofu............rul proposals
ror now countJea in Wuhington atal.c migltt well
cxoood lhe 89 counties now in eJ<Jate-. but what some &OUth
KinJz County rutdenta ltove in mind Ia diffon>nL
A aunJ>4lilln boi"!18Jinounced today would C..rve l'uget Sound
County out or tlle Kin& County, from the wburt>e a:ound SeattJe.
'lllooma lutemational AiJ1>ort to the Plcrco Count;y line.
'The people or South King County have !tad It up to here
with theM powo"' that bo: oaid Peter'Townsend, a Federal Way
accountant and member of the Puget Sound County Steerlng Committee.
Bad<en aoy thoro would bo lliO.OOO to 200.000 res!denl4. in
the now county. whlc:h would con·alit or Fedora! WD¥• Burien, 0..
Molnea. Normanely Park, &aThe. 1\akwUa and a few unincorporated
areu. lt'a tho n .. t eampoign, at lout In r.cent memory, to fonn a
r>ew counl)l In a largely urban·l%ed uta.
The last time a new C>lll1\y wu H\ablilhorl in WasltingtDn
wu In 19 U.. wlten Paad OreUle County wu fanned out or the
eutorn HCti.on or Stevena Coun11- In the 1 .. 1 throo
docadoa thoro ltove been unsuc:caarw ltlemptl to form new
eountlea only in predomiNlDtly rural ........ .-Uy oot or .u.
gruntlemont with eounty gov·ommenta dominated by urban CO DC*~
FaUed aeceaalon movcmentl Include proposala for Cedar
Co~ ln eD.Jtem King Coun~;y; Co 1 County in eastern King
and Piorco• eounties; Freedom, Slcyl«>mlsh and Whlteltonoo
counlleo in SDObolnlsb County; Plonttr County In northom
WltaiCOm Caun\1- and Olympic
Count;y In western C!&lam 8Jid
Jofl"er1011 counlles.
Some or the mollvatloa for Pupt Sound County is similar.
This legislation, sponsored by 33rd Rep. Julia Patterson,did not make it as far as committee. The digest reads “Declares that agreements requiring property owners to waive damages caused by the operation of aircraft in exchange for noise mitigation measures are contrary to sound public policy. Declares such agreements to be null and void.”
1994-12-11
Stephen Clutter, Paul J. Lim The latest controversy at Sea-Tac, over a possible third runway, is one more chapter in a long, turbulent history of airport expansion. Planes started using the site in 1944 and in five decades, it has become the 16th-busiest airport in the nation. ———————————- If you’re upset about the possibility of
1997-11-01