Sea-Tac Communities Plan Brochure (blue)

THE PROJECT. In March of 1973, the Port of Seattle Com- mission and the King County Council initiated a jointly sponsored study to develop a plan for the coordinated im- provement of Sea-Tac Internat ional Airport and surrounding communities . Based upon a detailed work program, and funded in part by a grant from the Federal Aviation Adminis- tration (FAA), the project was undertaken for the express purpose of determining how the Airport and its neighbors could best achieve maximum compatibility . The Sea-Tac Communities Plan, summarized by the text and exhibits that follow , represents the key end product of this important effort. THE AIRPORT. According to the latest published figures on passenger enplanements , Sea-Tac International Airport ranks as the 19th busiest air carrier airport in the United States. In 1974, a total of 5,772,216 passengers and 106,466 airline aircraft operations were handled by this public facility lo- cated in the southwestern part of King County some 15 miles south of Seattle . Starting from an in itial 906-acre site acquired by the Port of Seattle in 1942, the Sea-Tac Airport has been expanded and improved through the years to keep pace with the Pacific Northwest 's dynamic and specialized air travel market. Within its present boundary of 2,200 acres , the Airport now accom- modates a parallel runway airfield system ; a terminal com- plex designed to process up to 20 million passengers per year ; a computer-operated subway circulation network; and air cargo , aircraft maintenance,…

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Call to order – Roll Call – Quorum Established – Land Acknowledgement We would like to acknowledge that our Agency operates in four present-day counties, which are the traditional lands of the Coast Salish people, past and present. This acknowledgement does not take the place of authentic relationships with indigenous communities in our jurisdiction and [...]