TagCitizens Against Sea-Tac Expansion(43)

In October 1998, Lawrence Corvari, Co-President of Citizens Against Seatac Expansion (CASE), filed a declaration in King County Superior Court supporting a petition for a writ of review against the Port of Seattle. The declaration states that CASE directed its attorneys to appeal the Port's SEPA Determination of Non-Significance (DNS) related to the Auburn Mitigation Project, arguing that the Port's failure to comply with environmental review requirements harmed both the organization's members and the Miller Creek Basin environment.

A Normandy Park resident and aerospace engineering manager submitted detailed comments in November 1996 criticizing a draft impact study related to Sea-Tac Airport's proposed Third Runway, arguing that the analysis underestimated real estate value losses, air pollution risks, and traffic disruptions caused by the project. The letter contends that home values in Normandy Park stagnated or declined after the Third Runway was publicly announced, and that any valid property value assessment must use baseline figures from before negative publicity began. The author also challenges the study's air quality modeling assumptions and traffic analysis, warning that the Port of Seattle would selectively cite favorable findings while ignoring methodological flaws.

The CASE Group (Citizens' Alternatives to Sea-Tac Expansion) was formed in 1987 to oppose the Port of Seattle's plans to add a third runway at Sea-Tac Airport, gathering over 4,600 protest signatures and prompting the King County Council to pass a resolution against the expansion. The coalition organized public hearings, lobbied Port Commissioners, and circulated petitions urging state officials to reject expansion recommendations in favor of building a new regional airport away from densely populated areas. Their core argument was that alternatives to Sea-Tac expansion represented sounder economic and environmental choices for the Central and South Puget Sound region.