Minutes Exhibit
C
n Regular
Meeting
of Julv 10.
2018
THE BRIEFING PROJECT
EPISODE 8  BY THE NUMBERS

Thank you. I'm Steve Edmiston. I'm here to give you the briefing you asked for
last year from the FAA and from your staff on the community impacts from NextGen and
increased aircraft overights. I've covered what went wrong with that brieng. Today, we
begin the brieng you should have had.

it starts with numbers.

The numbers that drive everything else when it comes to the impacts of
overights on human health, the environment, crime, property values, social justice, and
quality of life. They are the answers to two simple questions: How many additional
airplanes are already ying over our homes? And, how many more are coming?

The rst number is your True Baseline Increase. We all seem to agree that the
airport has reached its peak-hour capacity at 416,000 annual aircraft operations in
2017. This means that measured since 2013, roughly 98,000 new aircraft are already
now ying over our homes each year. We now have 1,140 daily overights, a jump of
271 new overights every day. The daytime estimate is nearly one every single minute.
This is why your communities are already crying out. It's why Adam Smith dropped his
Aviation Impacted Communities bill. It's why neighbor city electeds are banding
together. It's why state legislators are pursuing mitigation and emission studies. it
seems everyone got the memo here except the Port.

But it's the "how many more planes are coming" question where we really see
things turned up to eleven. Your growth proposal  the SAMP  proposes a moonshot
up to 496,000 annual ights extrapolating current numbers. That's 1360 ights per day;
75 each hour; 1.3 each minute. It's the new definition of non-stop. It's another increase
of 80,000 ights per year, and when all is said and done counting the baseline and
phase I we'll have added 180,000 more annual ights or 492 more ights per day.
That's like The Avengers picked up the entire airport - say Portland's or Baltimore's 
and just dropped it on top of Seattle.

These are big and frightening numbers. And it's been frustrating for your citizens
that they are also the hardest numbers to nd. I checked the home page of the SAMP
again yesterday, and all the passenger and economic growth numbers are ying. But
not the answer to how many planes are coming.

Your staff is burying the lead.

Thank you for providing this citizen two-minutes to comment.

THE BRIEFING
THE BRIEFING YOU ASKED FOR BUT DID NOT RECEIVE 
IN TWO MINUTE PUBLIC COMMENTS

PORT OF SEATTLE COMMISSION MEETING
JULY 10, 2018
STEVE EDMISTON

Episode 8  By The Numbers
1.   The Historioa  \IearTerm Impact, or True Base ine:
how many more planes right now?
416,000/ 98,131 / 1,140/ 271
2.   Didn't get the memo?
3.  Turning it up to eleven: how many more p anes are
coming by 2027? (the POS "\lear Term.")
480,000-496,000/ 80,000/ 1,360/ 1.3
5.  The Avengers move an airoort: 180,000 / 492
6.  Way are we burying he ead?