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Flight Corridors (from p. 1)
Corridor could not handle all the volume, a committee record review showed.
However, residents in southeast Seattle, already hammered by noise from continued growth at nearby King County and Renton airports, along with residents of Mercer Island who are unused to hearing jet noise from Sea-Tac, vigorously opposed this approach, as was heard at a heated Rainier Valley meeting on April 18.
As a result of the public debate Port of Seattle officials requested the flight track issue be addressed as quickly as possible by the Part 150 Study Committees.
The East Turn presently routes more than 200 roaring jets over the South Park, Georgetown, North Beacon Hill , Jackson Park, Capitol Hill, Leschi, Montlake and Madrona communities per day.
The Part 150 committees' approved dispersion component would reduce the number of jet flights over residents currently impacted, however, southeast Seattle neighborhoods, including Seward Park and Rainier Valley, would get new overflights.
If the approved plan is dropped as Port staff now recommend, over 2 1/2 years of committee research, analysis and decision-making performed by a broad range of community and technical representatives working on the Sea-Tac Part 150 Noise Study would be nullified.
The controversy illustrates the complex issues stemming from years of expansion at Seattle-area
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