Minutes Exhibit C
Port Commission Regular Meeting of April 25, 2017


April 25, 2017

SUBJECT:   Public Testimony for Port Commissioner's April 25 meeting

TO:         Port of Seattle Commissioners

FROM:     Roseanne Lorenzana
Seattle's Beacon Hill neighborhood residen -
Afliations:
Board of Directors, Beacon Hill Communi    ouncr
Co-Chair, Community Health Advocates Collaboration
Afliate Associate Professor, Univ. of Wash. School of Public Health
Dept. of Environmental and Occupational Health Sciences
US. EPA Ofce of Research and Development (retired)

I respectfully submit the following as my public testimony in response to April 25 agenda item
3c, "Seattle-Tacoma International Airport Flight Track and NextGen Brieng". My comments
are presented as my own, as a resident of an impacted community and do not represent any of
my afliations.

Seattle's Beacon Hill neighborhood is located approximately 3'/z miles north of Seattle-Tacoma
Intn'l airport and being an elevated location, jet aircraft arrivals, according to Port of Seattle
records, are often a thousand feet or less above our heads. Annual averages provided by Port of
Seattle indicate that 73  80% of all arrivals y over Beacon Hill. Of course, on south ow days
which are the majority during the year  100% of all arrivals y over Beacon Hill.

Seattle's Beacon Hill residents of ~34,000  which according to the 2010 Census is about the
same population size as that of Burien  are up to 91% people of color, have the highest
percentage of people with less than 100% of the federal poverty level in King County and have
high rates of adverse effects which are suggestive or likely linked with the levels of aircraft noise
experienced in the community.

While it is true that inboundjet aircraft have always own over Beacon Hill, what has changed is
the number and type ofjet aircraft, the time of day, the precision approach and reduced
separation of aircraft. These have resulted in intense and signicant noise and air pollution
impacts on the Beacon Hill community. For years, residents have complained ofjet exhaust
fumes. But these have been unaddressed by either Port of Seattle or Puget Sound Clean Air
Agency (PSCAA).

Noise exposure reductions elsewhere along the ight path have been achieved by concentration
on a narrower band of travel below which lies the Beacon Hill community. This change of ight
trafc was clearly identied in the 2012 EIS for Greener Skies. Beacon Hill community
comments were provided to no avail. Although FAA has claimed they do not shift noise from
one community to another, that is exactly what the current ight trafc paths have accomplished.


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While Port of Seattle drives forward in their 2017-2021 expansion and economic long range
plan, it appears to be on the backs of people with limited resources and resilience, and who
receive only remote and indirect benet, if any, from Port of Seattle's current agenda.

Even though not bordering its properties, Port of Seattle needs to recognize Seattle's Beacon Hill
as a community to partner with for social responsibility. As a vulnerable community under
duress, it may not have the resources to sustain a powerful voice. However, the lack of volume
or of registered entries to the Noise Abatement complaint system or PSCAA's complaint system
should not be interpreted as though all is okay and acceptable.  It is not.

I ask the Port of Seattle Commissioners to include in their deliberations about airport expansion
and the desired increases in passenger and freight traffic to factor in a Beacon Hill Action
Agenda developed in collaboration with the community and with necessary funds for mitigations
which will directly benefit the Beacon Hill community.

Thank you.














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