Posts tagged airport

Renton’s new animal ordinance r...

In an age of new environmental sensitivity, jurisdictions like Renton are rediscovering goats as a non-mechanized means to keep unwanted plants under control. The following pictures are of goats grazing on land near the perimeter road at Renton airport. Here is a note from our airport management team: (They also provided the photos) __ [...]

New Leasing policy at Airport has bee...

Councilmembers Rich Zwicker, Don Persson, and I put the final touches on a new Renton Airport Leasing policy at last Thursday’s Transportation Committee Meeting. Huge credit also goes to Marcie Palmer, who chaired this committee last year when the lion’s share of the work was done. We put many, many hours of committee time into [...]

Beaver damage

The tall tree on the other side of the wall is one that had to be removed Here is the reason it was unsafe City crews had to take down some cottonwood trees today that were at risk of damaging the Cedar River flood wall, as well as a road and electrical wires down by the river. The reason…. a busy beaver had damaged the trees so badl [...]

Boeing may expand at Renton Airport

More news about Boeing solving our problems at the Renton Airport! Yay! The Boeing team are local heroes once again. Good-bye jet center…we hardly knew ya, but you seemed to have troubles making friends…. (more…)

A recent post from nojets.org, the gr...

According to nojets.org, Mayor Jesse Tanner tried to keep the airport quiet and neighborly, and Mayor Kathy Keolker continues to try to make it into a noisy jet center. I tend to agree. Click to enlarge Fortunately, the issue will finally be resolved by Boeing leasing the property in question, as long as my council colleagues continue t [...]

This is GREAT NEWS for those of you c...

Boeing is interested in leasing some property back from Renton, which makes all the discussions about a Jet Center moot. As far as I am concerned, Boeing is the reason this airport exists, and they are first in line for this site. From last night’s committee of the whole meeting, it sounds like a majority of [...]

Renton Airport in Today’s Seatt...

Mayor Kathy Keolker’s office sent out a Request-for-Proposals (RFP) for a Renton Jet Center without council approval late last year. When the proposals started coming in, outraged citizens started turning up at council meetings, informing us that they had many, many concerns about this direction for our airport. The council asked for m [...]

Airport Leases in debate: A letter o...

Many citizens are taking a closer look at Renton Airport Leasing policies following the debate about an Airport Jet Center earlier this year. Here is a representative email to city council, asking us to be careful about what we approve. The city’s transportation committee has decided to hold the subject leases in committee for furthe [...]

It would have been great to bring Pau...

This would have been a great use of our airport space. I’ve seen Paul Allen’s airplane collection (the public can arrange tours by appointment), and he has some one-of-a-kind historic WWI and WWII articles. This would have been a perfect fit in Renton, as it would be closer to Seattle metro area, just a quick boat trip from Alle [...]

More input on Airport issues….

From Mark Hancock, Renton citizen: Hi Marcie, Don & Randy - Sometime back, I found a list of FAA/airport law cases, and finally relocated it tonight (it’s an eye opener): http://home.netvista.net/hpb/cases.html As we all know, the FAA is not easy to deal with, and usually wins. Even the City of Naples, Florida, famous for having b [...]