BULLETINS
NEW! CACC's FINAL MEETING
Will be online (Zoom) and in person, Friday, June 9.
The meeting location is at South Sound Community College but at the Lacey campus. NOTE! The corrected address is the Lacey campus, 4220 6th Ave SE, Building 1 in Lacey.
CACC sent a correction this (Tuesday) morning.
The time is 9:30 a.m. til 11:30 a.m.
You can register here for the Zoom meeting.
You can view the meeting on TVW here.
There will be 20 minutes set aside for public comment; comment will be also accepted prior to the meeting via email to CACC.
The new meeting location and information can be found on the CACC website by clicking here.
AIRPORT BILL PASSES
Governor Inslee has SIGNED HB 1791, passing the legislation.
However, the State Constitution allows for a partial veto of bills, but by section only. Gov. Inslee vetoed four sections of the bill.
In doing so, the vetoes still effectively disbands CACC (who will have one more meeting Friday, June 9, they have been instructed in the governor's veto message to make no recommendation). The veto effectively eliminates consideration of any "greenfield sites", and limits aviation expansion study to existing airports. It maintains establishment of the Airport Working Group with community, environmental and other stakeholders - items that we fought for.
The veto removes the designation of "emergency" and will take effect in 90 days instead of immediately. As such, formation of the Airport Working Group will take place later this summer.
The veto statement link is on the "News and Events" page; local media (Seattle Times, Tacoma News Tribune, KING5 and KIRO7) who have written good pieces on the passage of the bill- visit their websites for more info (some may be behind a paywall).
Addendum: You may have heard or read of an article in the May 18 (online) Tacoma News Tribune indicating that the chair of CACC thinks they will make a "decision" before the deadline, seemingly in defiance of the overwhelming legislative support and governor's signature for a reset to the process. Write CACC and tell them to disband without a meeting or stay home and deny a quorum, as the new legislation has rendered any recommendation (or no recommendation, as directed by the Governor) irrelevant. It's time for a reset and to stop wasting of public money on the last one.
Let's keep a Sea-Tac-sized commercial airport out of our communities!
The Commercial Aviation Coordinating Commission (CACC), created by the WA State Legislature in 2019, has narrowed their recommendations for a larger than SeaTac-sized commercial airport to three local "greenfield" sites in our rural communities, with a final recommendation to be made to the legislature by mid-June 2023. These sites include Pierce County East, Pierce County Central, and Thurston County Central (see maps below).
If any of these recommendations are approved by the Legislature, it will cause severe environmental damage to our creeks, wetlands, and streams, pollute our aquifer, remove tree canopy, displace native wildlife as well as devastate our property, our way of life, destroy rural zoning, disrupt orderly growth, and require massive amounts of pavement, power, water and sewer by building a two-runway commercial airport here. It is unacceptable. A bill has been introduced to end CACC and replace it with an Airport Working Group; it has a broader representation and criteria for environmental, social and infrastructure. Go to News-Events to learn more. For other ways to help, click "Learn More Here."
THE CACC-PROPOSED AREAS
HOW YOU CAN HELP
Click "Find Out More" or on the tabs at the top of the page to be informed and become an active member to take action to prevent construction of a huge, commercial airport in our neighborhoods.
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