More than 200 residents gathered to protest against the construction of a new airport in Pierce County. The concerns stretch from increases in traffic and noise pollution throughout the region
Derek Young, Pierce County Council Chair, signed the letter alongside Dammeier.
The concerns stretch beyond sharing part of the county with a new airport, as increases in traffic and noise pollution throughout the region, on top of the impact this venture would have on the area’s endangered animals, stand among the coalition’s biggest concerns. “Anytime you come out to Pierce County and try and travel anywhere off the freeway, you are stuck in gridlock traffic,” Feld said. “There is zero infrastructure out here because we are unincorporated. I like to call this the dumping ground of Pierce County. When we had new homes that needed to be that were slated to be built in Pierce County, the majority of them got dumped out in our unincorporated area, because we didn’t have anyone sticking up for us.
“I know a lot of people on our Facebook group are trying to make this a red vs. blue thing. But I want to make the point that our current representative in the second legislative district, one of which, Andrew Barcus, is on the transportation committee. They all voted for this. All Republicans. All Democrats. Even Inslee, they all supported this measure. Our local representative knew that this was happening for years.
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