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Thurston County Residents Working to Assure a Safe and Peaceful Place to Live
Our Email: StopOlyAirportGrowth@gmail.com
For those of us who've been concerned about impacts of drastic increases in Olympia Airport aircraft flights over our neighborhoods, RIGHT NOW is the best opportunity we've had in ages to help stop unfettered growth of the airport and preserve quality of life in Thurston County.
The Port of Olympia has completed an Airport Master Plan Update. That Update discusses and outlines Port desires and plans to accommodate significant increases in aircraft operations at the airport.
The Port of Olympia Commission had to delay their approval of the Olympia Airport Master Plan Update due to an appeal of the Port's review and determination under SEPA (State Environmental Policy Act). The appellants maintain that the SEPA was wholly inadequate for many reasons. Their appeal calls for a thorough environmental review of the cumulative impacts of all the projects that would result from the approval of the Airport Master Plan.
We can support this very worthy appeal effort by donating:
Are You Tired of Hearing Helicopters Flying Low Over Your House?
Are You Tired of Aircraft noise waking you up at night?
Imagine when it gets much more worse?
Airplane noise.mp4Airplane Noise over Southeast Olympia Near the Olympia High School on 3/14/25
It will only get worse.
Flight Tracking Example
What We Can Do
We can show up, speak out, and write to all our Thurston County elected officials. The city, county, and the Port. Write letters to the editor, post on Facebook and NextDoor. Get the word out to friends and neighbors. Tell them we want the Port of Olympia to:
Stop plans that allow or encourage increased operations at the Olympia Airport.
Control the hours of operation and concentration of impacts over neighborhoods and Parks.
Return to local control over the airport.
Make neighborhoods impacted by the airport equal stakeholders with the aviation interests.
Seek alternatives for more sustainable transportation, such as rail.
Quit using our tax dollars to subsidize aviation interests.
Care about future generations.
What We Can Do
We can show up, speak out, and write to all our Thurston County elected officials. The city, county, and the Port. Write letters to the editor, post on Facebook and NextDoor. Get the word out to friends and neighbors. Tell them we want the Port of Olympia to:
Stop plans that allow or encourage increased operations at the Olympia Airport.
Control the hours of operation and concentration of impacts over neighborhoods and Parks.
Return to local control over the airport.
Make neighborhoods impacted by the airport equal stakeholders with the aviation interests.
Seek alternatives for more sustainable transportation, such as rail.
Quit using our tax dollars to subsidize aviation interests.
Care about future generations.
In addition to the volunteers who run this website, others concerned about and opposing growth of Olympia Airport operations maintain an active Facebook page.
Sign the Petition - Click Here
Many at the Port claim that they have no say over the Olympia airport because the FAA preempts them.
Is that true? Read this story:
Hear and Watch the public speak out against Airport Growth from 2/10/2025 Port Meeting. First Segment public testimony and Second Segment testimony
The Port of Olympia proposed Airport Master Plan Update will vastly increase air traffic flying over our neighborhoods which means:
More Noise More Pollution Lower Property Values
Click Here to Find the Airport Master Plan Update
The draft Master Plan Update (MPU) is very lengthy and unavailable as a single document that would allow searching for a term or word or name. Instead, you have to click on each individual chapter one at a time and search each one. And there is no table of contents anywhere, thus making it much harder to scrutinize, compare different sections, and so on. This is not a public-friendly document.
Report from U.S. GAO Office on Impacts of Helicopter Noise - GAO 21-200
Report from U.S. GAO Office on Impacts of Helicopter Noise - GAO 21-200
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