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Issues in Brief: Now that the third runway is built and in operation, we are faced with opinions from expert planners, saying that by 2023 or thereabouts, the Puget Sound region will need the equivalent of a fourth Sea-Tac runway. The Port of Seattle Commission and the Puget Sound Regional Council are on record as NOT favoring another Sea-Tac runway. What are the alternatives?

Documents:

2009

In 2005, the Legislature passed legislation directing the Aviation Division of the state Department of Transportation to study the needs of aviation around the State, & especially in the Central Puget Sound Region. The statute also created an Aviation Planning Council to consider the studies & to make recommendations on a range of aviation questions, with a primary focus on commercial aviation, & possible new airport in the region. The Aviation Planning Council filed its recommendations with the Legislature and Governor on 1 July 2009, as directed, but the Council failed to deal with the main problems defined by the Legislature. RCAA has prepared and distributed to the Legislature and Governor an analysis of the Council’s work

REGIONAL COMMISSION ON AIRPORT AFFAIRS
A Predictable Failure: Legislative Mandate Ignored; Aviation Planners Miss the Point
An independent analysis of the final recommendations of the state-wide Aviation Planning Council (1 July 2009) [.pdf, 34 pages]

Attachments to A Predictable Failure [.pdf, 21 pages]

Recommendations of the Washington State Aviation Planning Council [.pdf, 58 pages]

2005 (Third Runway Alternatives)

In Brief: A Summary of Alternatives that Should Have Been Considered
in Third Runway Planning, But Were Not [by RCAA]

Text of engrossed SSB5121 June 2005, setting up Airport Siting Council .pdf

“Summary: Statewide Long-Term Air Study” [from Aviation Division,
WSDOT] .pdf

Proposed Project Schedule, Phase I” [from Aviation Division, WSDOT] .pdf

Application form to become an airport citing council member [.pdf]

Nomination form to nomination someone else to be a airport citing council member [.pdf]

2004

RESOLUTION EB-04-01 As Adopted (adopted by PSRC Executive Board December 8, 2004) A RESOLUTION of the Executive Board of the Puget Sound Regional Council related to planning for Long-Term Commercial Air Transportation Capacity [.pdf file 126 kb]

2002

2002, July Presentation to House of Representatives on Alternatives (ACC, Hockaday) [Acrobat file - 234 KB, 12 pages]

1995

Puget Sound Regional Council Expert Arbitration Panel, Final Decision on Demand Management. Dec. 8, 1995.
Final Decision. Urges region to look a high speed rail, does not find demand management alone adequate due to disinterest by Port and WSDOT. [Acrobat version - 18 KB, 6 pages]

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