Part 3 Background

In 1942, the Civil Aeronautic s Admini s trati on (r w th J•'AAJ 11 •J, :e l, ,tJ an airport site near swampy Bow Lake. Since n it:h I' King C oUJ ty tFil ' Il l<: City of Seattle had adequate funds for such 11 proj t , th r l't nf S u.t tI t: acquired the original 906 acres and developed the Ai rpor t . lt 'l:l E:i O thW l! ti l King County situation was desireable since it was e to idway betw een Puget Sound's two major cities, Seattle and Ta oma. It' ~:> [>B i:i li i i ' Hl rural setting promised dis tance from city conge tions , and I ss im{JI:Id on a spars ely settled, countrified atmos phere . Sea- Tac's early scale of operations was overshadow ed by it t~ l:l l ' tl predecessor , nearby Boeing Field. It was not until the ndv ent of the je t IJj£(~ , with its pursuant needs of longer runways and genernlly enlnrg "d t'n ilHi m>. that the booming airline industry shifted its local focu s to Sea- TR . In th o meantime, the Airport's surrounding land character had undergone •on s iderable change . The area's proximity to manufacturing· in south Seattl e nnd R ntr n was a s ubstantial factor in its rapid postwar growth, which ontinucd through the early 1960's. With land use controls nnd environmenta l ~ 011 cerns less…

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