QSPS Comment presentation Pages from Study Session - 06 Feb 2025 - Agenda - Updated-2

• Context - the Airport/SAMP/EA Situation Today: bad/good • Committee 2.0 – threshold questions • Recommendations Page 70 of 76 Quiet Skies Puget Sound: Aviation Committee 2.0 Comments Context: what’s bad • SAMP draft Environmental Assessment (EA): 87,000 more annual flights carry catastrophic public health consequences to children, elderly, social and environmental justice communities • EA – reflects 4600 pages of no meaningful Port collaboration or mitigation • EA evidences StART, Highline Forum are “box checks” as far as airport expansion concerned • To observers, not clear council on same page as to gravity of the impacts of airport expansion on our public health and environment. Page 71 of 76 Quiet Skies Puget Sound: Aviation Committee 2.0 Comments Context: what’s good • Opposition to SAMP lining up – EPA, cities, growing number of advocacy groups • Federal representative Adam Smith’s office • State level • District Senators, Reps historically terrific • Growing numbers of advocacy groups engaged • Legal/regulatory framework positive for push back • FAA outdated science regulations being questioned Page 72 of 76 Quiet Skies Puget Sound: Aviation Committee 2.0 Comments Threshold Questions Framing Committee 2.0 • Question #1: Does City believe the available science and studies have established the public health harms from aviation noise and pollution? • Question #2: Based on SAMP EA, do we all agree there is no remaining evidence-based reason to believe the Port will voluntarily limit its own expansion, even knowing of these harms to public health? • Question #3: Will this…

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