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Planning for the Port of Seattle , wrote the following article for the Practicing Planner. The feature was published in the December 1978 issue, Volume 8, No.4 , and is reprinted with per- mission. Most airport/community planning conflicts center on noise exposure. In essence, there are only two ways problems of noise exposure can be addressed: at the source, the aircraft and airport proper; or in the impacted community, the receiver. For virtually all locations where residential property is involved, any significant airport expansion generates pronounced and unceasing conflict over noise exposure. Although significant efforts have been expended on a nationwide basis to reduce the noise problem at the source, not enough can be done to resolve existing community conflicts. There are simply not enough ways to alter operations and/or the aircraft themselves to eliminate major exposure problems in affected localities . The Sea-Tac effort is an example where solutions were sought primarily within the community- the receiver of the noise impact. At Sea-Tac International Airport, a full complement of expanded terminal and runway improvements was com- pleted a few years ago. All of the capacity needed to accommodate pre- sent and future traffic for many years now exists. Yet, in the neighborhoods around the Airport, a long-standing impact problem remained. Surrounding Sea-Tac are many post World War II, residential single-family units of moderate cost. Creation of the Airport in the 1940s was followed by growth of a large, amorphous unincor- porated urban area, possessing limited urban services, yet with…

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