Nobody is saying that Olympia Regional Airport is on the primary list. And, as observers of the CACC know: the verbal discussions and verbal and straw-vote agreement amongst CACC members undoubtedly is to include Olympia. Here is a link to that part of the Jan 6 CACC conversation. https://www.tvw.org/watch/clientID=9375922947&eventID=2022011023&startStreamAt=3400&stopStreamAt=3720, but also listen to a little before and after as well. This is a big deal and the issues are complex.
Perhaps the JOLT News would be so kind to include into this post again, the WSDOT CACC secondary list, which it published last week, May 26.
The primary list of airports also does not include a MEGA AIRPORT site, according to WSDOT staff at the Jan 6 meeting. The site search for a new mega airport, however, is in high gear through WSDOT and CACC consultants Kimley Horn. Thurston County - Black River Access area, between Littlerock Road and I-5, north of 113 Ave SW - was a recommended site several years ago. David Fleckenstein, CACC Chair, did not exclude Thurston County as a possible location, when asked by Port Commissioner Joe Downing during a Port study session on March 21, 2022. Instead, Mr. Fleckenstein mentioned the site selection criteria. Given those and certain legislative preemptions, Thurston County (together with Snohomish County) fit the bill, depending on how the commercial interests can make it pencil out for themselves financially.
This is not a dictatorship (yet?) and I wished the Port Commissioners and Rudy Rudolph, Port Manager, would explain the CACC's secondary list, please, with facts and trustworthy information.
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