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A RESOLUTION of the General Assembly of the Puget Sound Regional Council Amending the 1988 Interim Regional Airport System Plan (RASP) for Long-Term Commercial Air Transportation Capacity Needs of the Region WHEREAS, the Puget Sound Regional Council, designated under federal and state laws as the MetropolitanPlanning Organizationand Regional Transportation Planning Organization for the centralPuget Sound region, is responsible for adopting and maintaining regional growth management and transportationstzategies for the region; and ._ WHEREAS, the Regional Council has adopted VISION 2020: Growth and Transportation Strategvfor the CentralPuget Sound Re=ion. to guide growth management and transportation decisions and actions in King, Kitsap, Pierce and Snohomish counties; and WHEREAS, VISION 2020 seeks to'assure that the people of this region continue to enjoy an outstanding and improving quality of life that includes a vibrant economy, a healthy environment,and livable communities connected by a multlmodal, transit-oriented transportation system that emphasizes accessibility and enables the efficient movement of people, goods and freight; and WHEREAS, with respect to assessments of commercial air transportation needs, the Regional Council acknowledges long term forecasting uncertAi-ties, and the reduction on a day- to-day basis of currentairport capacity at Sea-Tac Airport during bad weather conditions; and WHEREAS, VISION 2020, as the Regional TransportationPlan for the region, includes the 1988 interim Regional Airport System Plan with language that called upon the region to "proceedexpeditiously with the detailed evaluation andselection of a preferred regional air can'ier systemaltemadve," and which now needs to be amendedto reflect the Regional Council's recent planninganddeliberationsregardingthelong-termcommercialairtr_-_ortationcapacityneeds oftheregion;and WHEREAS, jurisdictionsintheregionagreetositeregionaltransportationfacilitiesin a…

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