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  • 2024-12-19

    Federal Way City Council Special Meeting July 17, 2018

    Now that the SAMP Public Comment period is closed, we decided to start posting some important milestones for how we got here. When local governments claim they were blindsided by the 2024 Draft EA, that is not true. This is a Federal Way City Council presentation on the SAMP from 2018 that was better than any information we saw this year. We can make progress, but we have to use the information we already have!
  • 2024-12-18

    SAMP Draft EA Comment Period closed (2)

    Decision likely to come much earlier than expected! The Sustainable Airport Master Plan Draft EA comment period is now closed. We want to thank everybody who participated. We know the process was short and highly fraught. Nevertheless, we read some very good material. Thank you. The Port registered approximately 230 participants at their four Open

  • 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

  • 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
  • 2024-09-08

    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

    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
  • 2024-09-01

    ‘Elevated’ from Port of Seattle episode #4 (The Third Runway)

    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
  • 2024-07-13

    Elevated: 75th Anniversary Movie Premiere

    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
  • 2024-06-09

    Port Package Update Survey: more questions than answers

    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
  • 2024-05-24

    Port Package Update Call To Action: Postcards

    Make a public comment on May 28th to improve the assessment process After the passage of State law SB5955 and the Port’s Order 2024-04, the Port said it would begin developing a repair/replacement program for failing sound insulation systems (Port Packages). The Order says that the first step was to do an assessment of all