I was one of those people who attended the above mentioned Port Meeting.
You know how you talk to your sullen teenager about why or what that kid has done? Or hasn't done? They get that vacant look in their eyes, as if the only things going into their ears is 'blahblahblah'. That's the reaction we got from the Port.
Indifference. As if we were nothing more than a cloud of flies interfering with their picnic.
Their expressions were that of "We are NOT LISTENING." THere was some eye rolling, that said, , as if to say, you are taking my valuable time. This is the price, they seemed to say, for us getting a hefty paycheck.
Even when their own Master Plan was read to them VERBATIM they refused to accept that we, the taxpayers, actually READ IT. One person who I shan't name looked annoyed that we were there.
They have no intention of doing anything but ramming this up our backends. They won't be affected by any of the 630 flights that their own plan forecasts. THey won't end up having their property values plummet, or av gas drifting down onto their heads, or the never ending noise of constant flights. Nope. They've been bought by some deep pocketed corporations..for instance, I wouldnt be surprised if Amazon hadn't said, boy, it sure would be nice to have you provide an airport for our cargo jets.
And isn't it funny...when they ran for their positions on the Port, not a single one of their statements said "We intend to destroy your neighhborhoods by turning the airport into a smaller version of SeaTac."
I'm not even going into the Pantonni development or their sucking up to CocaCola's bottling plant.
It's time to abolish the Port of Olympia. THey have way overstepped their bounds. THey are working for themselves, not US. And we pay them for this. I can think of better ways for my property taxes that fund the Port than this.
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