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2023-06-02 16:11Wrangling over the “Ramboll Report”
The are two very different documents we will refer to back and forth in this article. To (try to) avoid confusion, we will refer to the Community Health and Airport Operations Related Pollution Report as ‘the KCDOH Study’ (because that is how the Port of Seattle referred to it.) We will refer to the summary -
2023-05-11 00:00Kris Johnson Presentation on 1109 Community Health Report
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2023-04-28 19:43
VIDEO: Surprise appearance by Port Commissioner Fred Felleman highlights recent Quiet Skies Puget Sound meetup
The agenda for Wednesday night’s (April 26, 2023) Quiet Skies Puget Sound (“QSPS”) informal meetup at the Quarterdeck in Des Moines – including discussing how local elections matter for airport noise and pollution issues, as well as a review of last week’s bombshell filing of a class action lawsuit against the Port of Seattle – took an -
2023-04-25 19:34
Quiet Skies Puget Sound issues statement on new class action lawsuit against Port of Seattle; holding meetup Wednesday night
Quiet Skies Puget Sound (“QSPS”) on Tuesday, April 25, 2023 issued a statement addressing last week’s filing of a Class Action Lawsuit against the Port of Seattle for airport noise and pollution. The group intends to discuss the lawsuit tomorrow at tomorrow’s scheduled, informal meetup event at Quarterdeck in Des Moines. Each meetup beings with a short -
2022-08-27 22:02High court upholds county OK of Boeing building near Sea-Tac
OLYMPIA - Washington's Supreme Court has upheld King County's approval of The Boeing Company's proposal to build corporate headquarters near Seattle-Tacoma Airport. Although the opinion was unanimous in rejecting challenges to the plart to build an office on a :ID-acre site west of the airport, two justices differed sharply over an appearance-of-fairness issue in the case. The court ruled that the appearance-of-fairness doctrine it has · established through cases since 1969 was not violated by two King County Council members who accepted campaign contributions from Boeing Co. employees, then voted for the construction plan. In a series of cases developing the doctrine, the court has held that local government bodies, in quasi-judicial actions such as rezones, not only should act fa'rly 'but should appear to act fairly by avoiding contacts and pressur~ :rom advocates for specific projects. Yesterday's <'t>inion upholds judgments of the King County Superior Court, whicL held that . despite the Boeing employees' contributions, the ~0P11ty Council acted properly in approving the company's project. The Westside Hilltop Survival Committee, a Highline-area citizens' group, had challenged the project and said the Council had illegally re- zoned the comprehensive plan it had approved earlier for the area. But the court said the action wasn't a rezone because the issue of the airport building was recognized in the original adoption of the comprehensive plan and was deliberately deferred for public hearings. Thus, the court said, the approval was only a continuation of the process of adopting the plan. It was- a… -
2022-07-31 00:54
LETTER: Ask our Port Commissioners to preserve North SeaTac Park by selling to the City of SeaTac
Jul 31, 2022 | Des Moines, Environment, Featured Post, Health & Wellness, Health and Wellness, Letter to the Editor, Letter to the Editor, News, Non-profit, Politics, Sea-Tac Airport, SeaTac [EDITOR’S NOTE: The following is a Letter to the Editor, written by a verified resident. It does not necessarily reflect the opinions of The Waterland Blog, nor its staff:] Ask our Port Commissioners to Preserve North SeaTac Park by Selling -
2017-05-02 20:38Airport noise and health impacts? Not going to fly with concerned citizens
05/02/2017 By Lindsay Peyton Gasps emanated from the crowd gathered at the Quiet Skies Puget Sound community forum when lawyer Steve Edmiston projected one of the first slides of his presentation. He showed a map published by the Environmental Projection Agency, followed by an alarming statistic, placing Des Moines’ Mount Rainier High School in the -
1983-04-28 00:00The Thunderword – Citizens make noise over jets – Friday, April 28, 1983
Student newspaper featuring article about citizens complaining about jet noise. It mentions a lawsuit settled out of court in 1979 concerning Inverse Condemnation. There are several anecdotes from instructors and the school nurse saying (incorrectly) that the noise poses no risk for human health. Citizens make noise over jets by JULIE HALME The noise from