Hmmm. The airport manager wonders where protesters may have gotten the 630 flights per day figure: Protesters got that figure from the Olympia Airport's own current (2013) Master Plan (pg. C.9.) The plan states that the taxiways would need to undergo reconfiguration to accommodate that number of operations. No coincidence then, that taxiway reconfiguration is one of the projects proposed in the current Master Plan Update. And - as far as the airport manager's assertion that protesters "do not have accurate information" - information dispersed has been carefully fact checked. The facts are that - 1) the proposed Master Plan Update includes feasibility study plans for a Commercial Passenger Terminal, 600 parking stalls (with ample room for more), vertiports (for vertical landing and takeoffs) - at a time when there is a projected future 400,000 annual commercial operational overflow that cannot be accommodated at SeaTac in the future. 2) the Olympia Airport is poorly sited to accommodate growth. Due to prevailing winds flight paths go directly over nearby residential neighborhoods, parks, schools. 3) the Olympia airport makes money off the sale of leaded aviation fuel 4) the Port has done nothing to address community concerns about adverse impacts of aircraft flights (noise, air pollution) on health 5) Acceptable airport/aircraft noise levels established by the FAA are far louder than noise levels deemed acceptable and safe for human health by the EPA, the World Health Organization, the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission and even the World Bank 6) the Olympia Airport has been undergoing an incremental expansion that has included forced property buyouts (including of an entire neighborhood south of the airport) , main runway strengthening and lengthening, construction of larger hangers to accommodate larger private / corporate jets. All of this under the blanket of an Environmental Impact Statement/Environmental review last conducted in 1994 which stated that "the airport is not planned for any change" 7: the proposed 2022 Master Plan Update plans for a new turf runway parallel to the main north/south runway. 8. most airports the size of the Olympia Airport have about three helicopters that are based at such airports. The Olympia Airport now has EIGHTEEN based helicopters, There has been no environmental assessment pertaining to impacts of those helicopters which regularly fly at altitudes of only 500 feet over our communities 9. the latest plan for the Olympia Airport is that 75 year lease with Swire Coca Cola on 95 acres near the main airport runway - a project which, if it comes to fruition, would result in destruction of prime habitat for several endangered species.
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