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2026-07-30
August Plane Talk: Boeing Seafair Air Show, New VFR Routes, and Airport News
Boeing Seafair Air Show runs today through Sunday The U.S. Navy Blue Angels during practice yesterday at King County International Airport-Boeing Field. The Boeing Seafair Air Show kicks off today and runs through Sunday. Along with the U.S. Navy Blue Angels, performers include Torrey Ward’s Microjet and the U.S. Marine Corps F-35B, a vertical takeoff -
2026-07-15Sea-Tac Communities Plan: Plan Summary Brochure
The Sea-Tac Communities Plan, jointly developed by the Port of Seattle and King County beginning in 1973, outlines strategies to improve compatibility between Sea-Tac International Airport and surrounding neighborhoods, with a focus on aircraft noise remedies, water quality improvements, and land use conversion. The plan identifies specific areas for outright property acquisition, purchase guarantees, and noise insulation programs affecting thousands of homes north and south of the airport. It also establishes policies for drainage management, community development, and long-term airport facility improvements to accommodate projected air traffic growth through 1993. -
2026-07-15Sea-Tac Communities Plan: Water quality, airport, and community development
The Sea-Tac Communities Plan outlines strategies to improve compatibility between Seattle-Tacoma International Airport and surrounding neighborhoods, focusing on water quality, drainage, and land use. Key programs include public acquisition of noise-impacted residential areas for open space and recreation, conversion of single-family zones to higher-density or commercial uses, and reinforcement of existing neighborhoods through noise remedy and infrastructure improvements. The plan also addresses environmental concerns such as stream protection, holding pond systems for stormwater management, and pollution control near Miller and Des Moines Creeks. -
2026-07-14Sea-Tac Communities Plan: Map Supplement to Sixth Month Report — Community Trends and Characteristics, Land Use, Ground Transportation and Traffic, Aesthetic and Visual Characteristics, Natural Determinants
This document is a map supplement to the sixth-month element report for the Sea-Tac Communities Plan, a planning study sponsored by the Port of Seattle and King County and partially funded by a federal FAA grant. It covers five key topics—community trends and characteristics, land use, ground transportation and traffic, aesthetic and visual characteristics, and natural determinants—for the communities surrounding Seattle-Tacoma International Airport. The supplement includes 1970 census tract maps of the Sea-Tac area and an errata note correcting a data classification error for Census Tract 272 related to public assistance recipients. -
2026-07-13Sea-Tac Communities Plan: Part 1 — Overview of the Plan (Working Draft)
This working draft of the Sea-Tac Communities Plan, produced jointly by the Port of Seattle and King County, outlines a planning framework for communities surrounding Seattle-Tacoma International Airport. The document, reviewed in summary form around 1975, addresses land use and policy considerations for neighborhoods affected by airport operations and noise. It represents an early collaborative effort to balance airport growth with the needs of surrounding residential communities. -
STCP Suburban Bus Routes Transit Map — Routes 107, 130, 132, 136, and 432
A transit map from the Sea-Tac Communities Plan (document section 5.5.2) showing suburban bus routes 107, 130, 132, 136, 432, and others in the Sea-Tac area. The plan was sponsored by the Port of Seattle and King County. -
Sea-Tac Communities Plan: Airport and Vicinity Existing Development Planning Map
A planning map produced by the Port of Seattle and King County as part of the Sea-Tac Communities Plan, showing the airport and vicinity planning area boundary (marked by dotted lines) surrounding Seattle-Tacoma International Airport. The map identifies surrounding jurisdictions including the City of Seattle, City of Tukwila, City of Normandy Park, City of Des Moines, City of Kent, and Burien, along with key roads, Interstate 5, and geographic features such as Puget Sound, Bow Lake, Angle Lake, and Miller Creek. -
Sea-Tac Communities Plan — 1970 Census Tracts and Activity Allocation Zones Map
A map from the Sea-Tac Communities Plan (document reference POS 635, page 1-1) showing 1970 census tracts and activity allocation zones for the Sea-Tac area. The plan was sponsored by the Port of Seattle and King County, and displays numbered zones (e.g., 3610, 3720, 3740) overlaid on census tract boundaries. -
STCP Residential Land Use Chapter Cover Page
Cover page of the Sea-Tac Communities Plan document titled 'Residential Land Use,' bearing document number POS 20890 and version number 5.5.1. The page features a black-and-white map showing residential land use patterns in the Sea-Tac area, sponsored by the Port of Seattle and King County. -
STCP North Reinforcement Area Program Application Map (POS 1054)
This planning map, document number POS 1054 (page 6.6.5, sheet 8), was produced under the Sea-Tac Communities Plan sponsored by the Port of Seattle and King County. It depicts the North Reinforcement Area program application, showing land-use designations including acquisition zones (gray), cost-sharing insulation areas (blue), conversion areas (West and North), streams and ponds, current airport lands, and key landmarks such as Highline High School, Sunny Terrace Elementary, Sunnydale Elementary, and Riverton Heights Elementary, within the grid bounded roughly by S. 144th St. to S. 152nd St. and SR-509/SR-518.