A hand-annotated planning map depicting the west side of Sea-Tac Airport, labeling key features including the Boeing Corporate Headquarters Proposal Site, Proposed General Aviation Reserve, Proposed Weyerhaeuser Corporate Air Facility, Future Air Cargo/Maintenance area, and adjacent Westside Residential Communities and Hilltop Community. Accompanying text references the December 19, 1977 King County Council adoption of the Highline Communities Plan (HCP) and discusses STCP land-use buffering uncertainties on the airport's west side.

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A hand-annotated planning map depicting the west side of Sea-Tac Airport, labeling key features including the Boeing Corporate Headquarters Proposal Site, Proposed General Aviation Reserve, Proposed Weyerhaeuser Corporate Air Facility, Future Air Cargo/Maintenance area, and adjacent Westside Residential Communities and Hilltop Community. Accompanying text references the December 19, 1977 King County Council adoption of the Highline Communities Plan (HCP) and discusses STCP land-use buffering uncertainties on the airport’s west side.

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As the source for federal transportation grants, the Puget Sound Regional Council was charged with developing a system to meet the growing need for commercial aviation. When the search for a second airport failed, they authorized the Port of Seattle to build the Third Runway, with a mandate to develop a noise abatement and mitigation program. In their effort to stop the Third Runway, the ACC argued over every detail of the Port's efforts--including property buyouts and sound insulation. The dispute was meant to be settled by a three member Expert Arbitration Panel. This is their final report. It finds 2-1, that the Port's program was insufficient in several respects. Despite that, funding for the Third Runway was approved by the PSRC, and the 'Port Package' program, proceeded largely unchanged. Expert Arbitration Panel's final decision finding that the Port of Seattle had not shown sufficient reduction in real on-the-ground noise impacts to satisfy noise reduction conditions required for approval of a third runway at Sea-Tac International Airport. The majority decision concluded the Port's noise abatement programs were insufficient despite being impressive in scope.

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