A presentation on the Sustainable Airport Master Plan (SAMP) Draft EA Comment Period. How to write an effective comment and why that really matters. Remember: you have until December 13, 2024 to send in your public comment to the FAA.
2024-11-15
by Stuart Jenner The Port of Seattle has recently sponsored open houses about the “Sustainable” Airport Master Plan for Seatac (SAMP). At the open houses, held in Federal Way, Des Moines, and Burien, 20 or more port employees, joined by at least four consultants who flew in from Ohio, staffed 30 easels holding slides that
Figure 4-1 from a Seattle-Tacoma International Airport planning document shows historical and forecast total aircraft operations (in thousands) from 2011 to 2038, broken down by passenger airlines, all-cargo airlines, and other operations. The forecast, sourced from LeighFisher (June 2022, updated August 2023), projects growth from 429,000 operations in 2023 to 567,000 by 2038.
Google Earth satellite image showing the Seattle-Tacoma International Airport (Sea-Tac) area with a red shaded overlay indicating a noise impact or flight path zone, and a blue outline delineating the airport property boundary. Visible highway labels include I-5, SR-509, SR-518, SR-516, and SR-99, placing the map in the SeaTac/Burien/Des Moines area of King County, Washington.
The one thing we hear over and over from community members re. the SAMP Draft EA is “What do I say?” “How do I get started?” We get it. One way we want to help is to provide some of our questions, which we’ll be updating frequently before submitting our full comment before the December
2024-11-02
Public meeting scheduled for Nov. 12 at Wildwood Elementary School. By Keelin Everly-Lang • November 2, 2024 7:30 am The Seattle-Tacoma International Airport (SEA) is expanding their capacity and operation, including the addition of more international airlines like the Philippine Airlines (PAL) whose inaugural flight landed at SEA on Oct. 2 this year. Photo by
10 questions for the Port of Seattle Many people concerned about all the flights from Sea-Tac Airport rightfully think about “making the planes go somewhere else.” Changing the flight paths. That matters. But while we’re working on that, we should also focus on a much easier task, which we don’t focus on: doing what we
Fix The Harm campaign: SAMP Draft EA google doc comment form
