They say that great things come in threes (unless of course you live under the new flightpath and you’re talking about airport runways…), and this coming week is no exception, as there will now be THREE meetings scheduled to discuss the third runway and the Port of Seattle!
The latest will be put on by CASE, aka Citizens Against Sea-Tac Expansion, which has a long history of battling the Port of Seattle over the airport expansion.
Well, they haven’t given up yet folks, and their next meeting is this coming Wed., Jan, 7th, from 7pm to 9pm. Here are the details:
WHAT: CASE Monthly “Sea-Tac Expansion” Meeting
WHERE: ERAC (Highline District Adminstration Office), located at 15675 Ambaum Blvd. SW, Burien (near Azteca & Hi-Line Lanes)
WHEN: Wednesday, Jan. 7th, from 7pm to 9pm
INFO: From the invitation sent out by Brett Fish:
You and your friends and neighbors are invited to attend our January monthly CASE meeting. CASE President Brett Fish will conduct the meeting and briefly update us on the DOE draft release of the NPDES Permit. The main subject of this meeting will be to hear additional comments on the airport noise caused by the new flight patterns currently being used with operations with the 3rd runway.
Speakers at this meeting will include new voices from North, West and East of the airport.  Many of these neighbors do not have noise insulation provided by the Port because of the different predictions of flight operations and/or calculations by averaging noise over time by the Port. These neighbors have measured the noise levels to be “equivalent to that of a motorcycle level†in their back yards.
One neighborhood mother complained that “her baby used to sleep through the night but now wakes up every half-hourâ€Â; another “It feels like we’re in a war zone,” said Miriam Bearse, who lives north of the third runway in Burien. “It feels like bombers going overhead every five minutes at low altitude.”
We are inviting representatives from the Port of Seattle and the FAA to attend the meeting and to respond to the complaints and the plans to fix them and who will be responsible.
Bob Sheckler and the Port have announced that the postponed Special Session of the Highline Forum on aircraft noise has been rescheduled for Thursday, January 8th. Members of the Highline Forum will meet at Seattle-Tacoma International Airport’s Conference Center from 2:00 to 3:00 PM to discuss aircraft noise connected to the new third runway. Mark Reis, the Airport’s Managing Director, along with Port staff will provide information and answer questions from the members of the Highline Forum. The public is invited to observe.  At 3 PM, we will adjourn the meeting of the Highline Forum and dedicate the next hour as a Port of Seattle public comment period. Members of the public will be invited to provide remarks. The public comment period will end at 4 PM.
Questions and Comments from the floor will be welcome.
If you have questions or need directions, call me at 206-824-6589.ÂÂ
Thanks.
