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2025-01-28
Commission passes state tourism agreement
Last minute amendment to limit cruise marketing fails 2025 01 28 Agenda Packet Item 9a: Authorization for the Executive Director to Execute a Joint Marketing Agreement with State of Washington Tourism (SWT), a State Government Agency, to Promote International Tourism to Seattle and Washington State in Selected International Markets for Three Years at the Rate -
2025-01-19SAMP Call to action: Sign in Pro for HB 1303
Please Sign in pro to support HB1303-2025 First hearing in the House Environment Committee Thursday January 23 8:00AM. This is the most important airport legislation of the year you don’t know about. It is exactly what was missing from the Sustainable Airport Master Plan Draft EA. It will require a supplemental environmental impact statement on -
2024-12-31
Federal Way City Council December 3, 2024 SAMP presentation
Every city near the Sea-Tac Airport has its own, and very different, approach to airport issues. To illustrate this we encourage you to watch this five minute video segment and read the official Federal Way comments on the SAMP (starting on pg #299). Bill Vadino is the Strategic Advisor to Mayor Jim Ferrell, and one -
2024-12-30Happy New Year!
The SAMP and opportunities for change in the next three months Happy New Year to everyone who has followed and supported us since 2016. The coming year is going to be big and we’re changing in a few ways to try to keep up. The first thing you’ll notice is more frequent communications, which we’ll -
2024-12-19
Federal Way City Council Special Meeting July 17, 2018
Now that the SAMP Public Comment period is closed, we decided to start posting some important milestones for how we got here. When local governments claim they were blindsided by the 2024 Draft EA, that is not true. This is a Federal Way City Council presentation on the SAMP from 2018 that was better than any information we saw this year. We can make progress, but we have to use the information we already have! -
2024-12-18
SAMP Draft EA Comment Period closed (2)
Decision likely to come much earlier than expected! The Sustainable Airport Master Plan Draft EA comment period is now closed. We want to thank everybody who participated. We know the process was short and highly fraught. Nevertheless, we read some very good material. Thank you. The Port registered approximately 230 participants at their four Open -
SAMP Draft EA: Our running list of questions
The one thing we hear over and over from community members re. the SAMP Draft EA is “What do I say?” “How do I get started?” We get it. One way we want to help is to provide some of our questions, which we’ll be updating frequently before submitting our full comment before the December -
SAMP NTP Comment Process
31 projects in 45 days? The SAMP Draft EA documents are now available here: The Sustainable Airport Master Plan Near Term Projects (SAMP NTP) is a collection of 31 construction projects that will increase flights over the next decade by as much as a new runway, but without building a new runway. The environmental review -
2024-09-08City Council to decide on Des Moines Creek West purchase from Port
Small parcel big step to enable controversial expansion of business park [09/19/2024]The City Council has added this item to their September 26 Agenda (6:00pm). [09/12/2024]At their September 12 meeting, the City Council held over this decision until October. We will provide notice as soon as it is scheduled. Please note that this sale is not -
SR-509 Surplus, a tale of two cities
Background information on SR-509 WSDOT Surplus purchases by SeaTac and Des Moines along the 18th Ave Corridor For decades WSDOT owned surplus property along a corridor roughly parallel to 18th Ave., from 194th St. in SeaTac south through Des Moines as part of a previous plan for SR-509. The final (very different) alignment for SR-509