Stories

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

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

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

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

The Port of Seattle has launched a series of short films called ‘Elevated’ celebrating the 75th anniversary of Sea-Tac Airport. We think they are all worth watching, but this one, on the Third Runway, especially as it gives ‘their side of the story’. We object to almost every aspect of this video. Much of it

You can handle 100,000,000 passengers a year… Today, at the Boeing Museum Of Flight, the Port of Seattle premiered the first in a series of videos charting the history and growth of Sea-Tac Airport. The videos, collectively titled Elevated, were introduced by Port CEO Stephen Metruck, who spoke about the challenges of continuing to serve

Including only a third of the homes is not the half of it As we’ve been reporting, the Port Package Update program, now called the Sound Insulation Repair/Replacement Pilot Program has had pitfalls at every turn. The most obvious concern we had is that the survey was sent to 3,200 homes, which is only a

Make a public comment on May 28th to improve the assessment process After the passage of State law SB5955 and the Port’s Order 2024-04, the Port said it would begin developing a repair/replacement program for failing sound insulation systems (Port Packages). The Order says that the first step was to do an assessment of all

Proposal would subsidize farmers to grow crops to create aviation fuel The Farm To Fly Act is the most basic reason STNI has never endorsed so-called sustainable aviation fuels. In theory, aviation fuels created exclusively from scrap biomass may pollute less and might create fewer greenhouse gases than fossil fuels. However, the amount of such available material

High ideals held back by limiting only to immediate airport property Today’s Commission meeting approved the Port’s Land Stewardship Plan. Unfortunately the plan has a glaring defect: it only applies to property on the ‘triple a’, which renders it almost neutered. One member of the public described it as ‘completely insufficient’ and we must agree.