HomeMy WebLinkAboutTIC 2019-06-18 Item 3D - SCATBd - 4/16/19 Meeting Summary / 5/21/19 Meeting AgendaSouth County Area Transportation Board, (SCATBd)
April Meeting Summary —Tuesday, April 16, 2019
1. Introductions & Approval of March SCATBd meeting summary: March meeting summary approved.
2. Reports and Communications:
Chairs Report — Funding for SR18. Discussion about status of funding for SR18@ 1-90? Discussed still
sending thank you letter to WSDOT with SCATBd Legislative Agenda attached.
3. Port of Seattle Sustainable Airport Master Plan: Steve Rybolt, Port of Seattle described growth at SeaTac
including passenger volumes and how to serve market demands. Current projects include the North
Satellite, International Arrivals Facility, Concourse D Hardstand Hold room, Baggage Modernization,
Airport Dining and Retail Development. The Port's strategic and environmental planning associated with
FAA requirements, have conducted extensive public outreach. Several common themes heard from the
community include human health impacts, air quality and climate, noise concerns, the environmental
review process. NEPA draft will be published for public review in April 2020. Draft SEPA EIS will follow
the FAA's NEPA decision in September of 2020.
g: Explain demands exceeding forecasts. Based on our current growth, our growth has exceeded
forecasts. We are growing at 6% vs. the 3% forecasted.
g_ Using FAA's decibel threshold vs. the WHO piece? FAA is requiring us to use their established
standards. We can incorporate additional information into the study.
g; Are you including the particulate study being prepared by the state? If it's ready to go. Port is also
doing an independent one as well.
g_ Why are you using 2018 as base year when the public asked for 2012 as base year? Between 2012-
18 was there a study to account for the 70-80k additional flights? There wasn't a study but the master
plan in 1997 already included forecasts for that growth. We haven't done a study for those additional
flights specifically but they are covered in previous studies.
Q: Airport has outpaced any forecasts for growth. Why not just forecast it on the high side? Yes, the
1997 plan did forecast conservatively.
g Existing noise monitors are not accurate or not working, no accountability. That should be
addressed. Disconnect between monitors and what people are seeing and hearing. Working to address
that based on modeling for future forecasting.
C3 What is the relationship of this process and the rebranding that Port of Seattle is doing? Tacoma is
staying in the name! The aviation director is trying to brand the quality of service with the name.
g_ Is air cargo a piece of your projections? It is part of our forecast update. Encourage you to show
both components, air and cargo.
Q: How are you going to link what you've heard from the community and what you've followed up with
as next steps. FAA is very prescriptive in process.
4. Sound Transit Update: Katie Drewell, Community & Governmental Relations for Sounder & South Sound.
Federal Way Link Extension opening in 2024. After that the Tacoma Dome Link Extension in 2030. S
Boeing Access Rd light Rail infill station to open in 2031.
Sounder South Projects include:
• 2019 SOV Permit Parking program rollout
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• 2022 Puyallup and Sumner station parking and access
• 2023 Kent and Auburn stations parking and access improvements
• 2036 Dupont sounder extension
Sounder South: Service started in 2000 with two roundtrips. Today 13 daily round trips. Special events
trains for Seahawk games and other events. Ridership continues to grow, strongest during peak hours.
To mitigate growth, we are expanding trains from 7-10 cars including platform extensions and access
improvements for pedestrians, bicyclists, buses and cars. Sound Transit is conducting a strategic
planning process to develop implementation and external engagement including ridership forecasting.
We are looking for opportunities to improve our service and make it more efficient. Considerations
about expansion:
• BNSF owns tracks from Tacoma to Seattle and new trips are costly
• Freight traffic is concentrated outside of peak commute period
• Midday train storage is limited
• King Street Station tracks and center platform are constrained
• BNSF crews are union employees and there are restrictions on crew hours
Tacoma Dome Link Extension: 9.7 additional miles with four stations, to open in 2030. New operations
and maintenance facility will open in 2026 in S King County. Currently in the middle of the 30 day
comment period for the Tacoma Dome expansion. Sound Transit wants your input on what the
preferred alternative is and other alternatives. This includes station locations. The Board will be making
a decision on this later this year. Public meetings are this and next week during the month of April.
Q: Sounds like we are planning to add more cars to Sounder Trains. Will it slow trains down from
boarding, car malfunctions? Evaluating that now. Don't anticipate any issues. Our locomotives are able
to haul ten car train sets. Including access for ADA.
5. SCATBD Operating Agreement: Changes approved to include language on food and beverage purchases.
6. Public Comment:
Larry B.: Pilot for Alaska airlines. Trying to be part of the solution. We formed Quiet Skies in Burien.
Coming together April 25th in Burien at the PAC. Speaker is US Rep. Adam Smith about DC legislation.
Along with a special report from the World Health Org. This event will educate and inform and
empower citizens.
Debbie Wagner: World Health Org. talking at the meeting. WHO is saying that 45db is not okay and that
is what the Port has insulated to. Port is doing something differently than what they are saying. The
demand they reference is from Delta using Seattle as a hub to fly additional planes to the far -east. The
airport is producing too much noise, too much pollution.
Bernadine: from Federal Way. Demand is being created by advertising that has to stop. Aviation
represents 5% of CO2 emissions and is the fastest growing industry in the world. Releasing damaging
gases in the atmosphere. Airport growth and flights are not sustainable. The SAMP is based on current
legislation. There is a lag between what is right and ethical and moral and legislation. The FAA
authorization bill took away people's rights to take noise away from overhead of people's houses.
Meeting adjourned 10:19 a.m.
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SOUTH COUNTY AREA TRANSPORTATION BOARD (SCATBd)
MEETING AGENDA
Tuesday May 21, 2019
9:00 — 10:30 a.m.
SeaTac City Hall
4800 South 188th Street
SeaTac
1.
Open Meeting
(Breakfast treats provided by the City of Enumclaw)
• Introductions
• Approve April SCATBd Meeting Summary
Action
9:00 a.m.
2.
Reports and Communications
• Chair or Vice Chair
• Participant Updates (from RTC and Other Regional
Committees)
Report and
Discussion
9:05 a.m.
3.
Metro's Mobility Framework
Rob Gannon, Metro General Manager
Discussion
9:10 a.m.
4.
Pierce Transit Bus Rapid Transit & Service Update
Kim McGilvery, Pierce Transit
Discussion
9:40 a.m.
6.
• Public Comment
• Next SCATBd Meeting: Tuesday, June 21, 2019
> Breakfast treats will be provided by the City of
Federal Way
Discussion
10:10 a.m.
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