TagDavid Goebel(7)

The City of SeaTac responded to a public records request (PRR25-593) from Paula Rodriguez, fulfilling her December 9, 2025 request for all communications mentioning 'Vashon Island Fair Skies' or 'David Goebel' between July 1 and November 30, 2025. The city released 2,528 pages of records, noting that many documents are duplicated due to emails sent to multiple recipients. The request has been closed, with Rodriguez retaining the right to seek judicial review within one year under RCW 42.56.550(6).

The City of SeaTac acknowledged a public records request (PRR25-593) from Paula Rodriguez, filed December 9, 2025, seeking all communications and documents referencing 'Vashon Island Fair Skies' or 'David Goebel' between July 1 and November 30, 2025. The city confirmed the request was forwarded to relevant departments and anticipated fulfilling it by December 26, 2025. This request appears related to community advocacy efforts concerning aircraft noise and air quality around Sea-Tac Airport.

Vashon Island Fair Skies, a 501(c)3 nonprofit, wrote to the SeaTac City Council in July 2020 requesting help pressuring the Port of Seattle to retain raw second-by-second data from its 24 airport noise monitors, which vendor L3Harris currently purges after processing. The letter argues this raw data is essential for accurate noise analysis, demonstrating with December 2019 monitor data that high background noise at some sites causes the processing software to miss many actual aircraft overflight events. The group asks the city to urge the Port to make a simple procedural change — either downloading the data itself or requiring L3Harris to deliver it — noting the storage requirement is a modest ~62 MB per monitor per month.

This November 2017 presentation by David Goebel examines how the FAA's NextGen modernization program—specifically the new 'HAWKZ' RNAV flight procedure—has increased aircraft noise over Vashon Island, located west of Seattle-Tacoma International Airport. It explains why so many arriving flights are routed over the island despite SeaTac's runways running north-south, compares the old radar-based approach with the new GPS-guided one, and discusses the real-world altitude impacts residents have experienced. The presentation also covers community response options and what other affected neighborhoods have done to push back against similar NextGen-related noise increases.