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2024-03-31 20:31Recommended Legislation
A list of the changes to City, State and Federal laws we'd like to see, along with key legislation in process at the State and Federal levels. -
2019-11-26 18:45
A Letter To Tina Orwall re. Port Package Legislation
Tina Orwall is a State Representative For the 33rd District. This letter is in regard to a conversation I had with her re. her proposed legislation to revise RCW 53.54 to help with Port Package Problems. There is a discussion of long-term strategic goals, including a Community Agency to administer relations with the Port. Thank -
2019-09-26 14:02
RCW Title 29A: Elections
This Title of State law describes election procedures. For our purposes, we’re largely concerned with a path towards altering the structure and size of the Port Of Seattle’ Commission. Specifically, we’d like to see a nine-member Commission with District-based elections. -
2018-12-05 22:23
Washington State RCW Title 53 – Concerning Port Districts
This link provides information on how the Port Of Seattle is structured and, in 53.54, the Noise Abatement section which controls the Avigation Easements. Title 53 is chock full of interesting stuff that we believe are worth study because they explain why the Port is so powerful. But when most airport ‘enthusiasts’ focus about it -
1993-07-25 00:00HB1915 Aircraft Noise Abatement Assistance To Individual Properties
Passed by the House March 8, 1993 Yeas 97 Nays 0 BRIAN EBERSOLE Speaker of the House of Representatives Passed by the Senate April 15, 1993 Yeas 38 Nays 6 CERTIFICATE I, Alan Thompson, Chief Clerk of the House of Representatives of the State of Washington, do hereby certify that the attached is SUBSTITUTE HOUSE BILL 1915 as passed by the House of Representatives and the Senate on the dates hereon set forth. JOEL PRITCHARD President of the Senate ALAN THOMPSON Chief Clerk Approved April 30, 1993 FILED April 30, 1993 - 2:03 p.m. MIKE LOWRY Governor of the State of Washington Secretary of State State of Washington _______________________________________________ SUBSTITUTE HOUSE BILL 1915 _______________________________________________ Passed Legislature - 1993 Regular Session State of Washington 53rd Legislature 1993 Regular Session By House Committee on Local Government (originally sponsored by Representatives Patterson, H. Myers, Brough and Valle) Read first time 03/01/93. AN ACT Relating to aircraft noise abatement; and amending RCW1 53.54.030.2 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF WASHINGTON:3 Sec. 1. RCW 53.54.030 and 1985 c 115 s 1 are each amended to read4 as follows:5 For the purposes of this chapter, in developing a remedial program,6 the port commission may utilize one or more of the following programs:7 (1) Acquisition of property or property rights within the impacted8 area, which shall be deemed necessary to accomplish a port purpose.9 The port district may purchase such property or property rights by time10 payment notwithstanding the time limitations provided for… -
1974-09-19 00:00HB1328 Port Districts Aircraft Noise Control
AN ACT Relating to port districts; authorizing port districts operating an airport to undertake programs to control and abate aircraft noise; and adding a new chapter to Title 53 RCW. BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF WASHINGTON: NEW SECTION. Section 1. A port district operating an airport serving more than twenty scheduled jet aircraft flights per day may undertake any of the programs or combinations of such programs, as authorized by this chapter, for the purpose of alleviating and abating the impact of jet aircraft noise on areas surrounding such airport. NEW SECTION. 'Sec. 2. Prior to initiating programs as authorized in this chapter the port commission shall undertake the investigation and monitoring of aircraft noise impact to determine the nature and extent of the impact. The port commission shall adopt a program of noise impact abatement based upon the investigations and as amended periodically to conform to needs demonstrated by the monitoring programs: PROVIDED, That in no case may the port district undertake any of the programs of this chapter in an area which is more than three miles beyond the paved and of any runway or more than fifteen hundred feet from the centerline of any runway or from an imaginary runway centerline extending three miles from the paved end of such runway: PROVIDED FURTHER, That the area within 2500 feet of the center of the end point of any runway may be included. Such areas as determined above, shall be known as "impacted… -
1974-04-24 21:57
RCW 70.107.010
Purpose. The legislature finds that inadequately controlled noise adversely affects the health, safety and welfare of the people, the value of property, and the quality of the environment. Antinoise measures of the past have not adequately protected against the invasion of these interests by noise. There is a need, therefore, for an expansion of efforts