TagSAMP(156)
Articles tagged with the Sustainable Airport Master Plan.
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2025-12-08Airport Advisory Committee Meeting Agenda and Minutes
We recognize that a healthy environment is essential to the quality of life in Des Moines. To ensure that we have a healthy environment, the Committee will advocate for adding a nationally recognized toxicologist(s) to the team responding to the Port of Seattle’s Sustainable Airport Master Plan (SAMP). The Committee will network with similar advocacy -
2025-12-08Airport Advisory Committee Meeting Agenda and Minutes
Agenda for Des Moines Airport Advisory Committee meeting on December 8, 2025, including approval of November 10, 2025 minutes, StART meeting update, SAMP update, complaints/communications, and committee workplan discussion. The document also contains the complete minutes from the November 10, 2025 meeting. -
2025-12-08Des Moines Airport Advisory Committee Meeting Agenda and Minutes
Airport Advisory Committee meeting agenda for December 8, 2025, including items on SAMP updates, StART meeting updates, complaints/communications, and committee work plan. Responses on noise complaint from Laurel Hughes. Also includes minutes from the November 10, 2025 meeting with discussion of Q&A with Steve Edmiston and various airport-related updates. -
2025-12-01Case 25-7439 Docket Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals
A mediation questionnaire filed in the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals challenging the FAA’s September 2025 FONSI/ROD for Seattle-Tacoma International Airport Sustainable Airport Master Plan Near-Term Projects. The Cities contend the FAA’s environmental review violated NEPA by using an artificially truncated environmental baseline and failing to assess cumulative impacts. -
2025-11-2425-7439 Petition for Review of Agency Order – City of Burien, City of Des Moines, and City of SeaTac v. FAA
A petition filed in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit challenging the FAA’s Finding of Significant Impact/Record of Decision for the Sustainable Airport Master Plan Near-Term Projects at Seattle-Tacoma International Airport. The petition was filed by three Washington cities seeking review of the September 24, 2025 FAA decision. -
2025-11-22
City of SeaTac Agenda Bill 6794 – Legal Services for Airport Environmental Review
City of SeaTac SAMP ILA AB6794 November 12, 2025 Request for Council Action MAYOR EGAL: That’s fine with us. Right. Okay. So that is for that. The next item will be an action item agenda bill 6794, an ordinance authorizing the city manager to execute a letter of engagement for legal services, authorizing the city -
2025-11-18SAMP legal challenge 2/2: different year, same mistakes
Analysis As reported in Part I: Between November 3rd and November 13th, city councils in Burien, SeaTac, and Des Moines each voted unanimously to enter into an Interlocal Agreement (ILA). The agreement retains outside legal counsel to challenge the Federal Aviation Administration’s Record of Decision (ROD) Finding of No Significant Impact (FONSI) for the Sustainable -
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2025-11-16
SAMP legal challenge 1/2: Three cities move forward, Normandy Park out
Piecemeal rollout suggests lack of shared commitment Between November 3rd and November 13th, Burien, SeaTac, and Des Moines each voted unanimously to enter into an Interlocal Agreement (ILA) to retain outside legal counsel to challenge the Federal Aviation Administration’s Record of Decision (ROD) Finding of No Significant Impact (FONSI) for the Sustainable Airport Master Plan