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MONDAY, MAY 13, 2013
Vol. CXXIV, No. 92
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Tacoma Narrows Airport control tower to remain open until Sept. 30 Posted online Fri., May 10 Photo Courtesy Pierce County The U.S. Department of Transportation announced Friday the contract control towers at Tacoma Narrows Airport and 148 other airports will remain open until Sept. 30, the end of the federal government's fiscal year 2013. The towers had been slated to close June 15 as the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) implements budget cuts under the congressional directive known as sequestration. "This is great news for the customers of our popular airport," said Pierce County Executive Pat McCarthy. She noted Pierce County has not received information regarding the status of the towers beyond Sept. 30. "We continue to work with the FAA, our congressional delegation and potential partners to keep the tower operating. The Department of Transportation's decision gives us more time to
City Council to discuss Comprehensive Plan, Land Use Code amendments
Posted online Fri., May 10 Tacoma City Council is scheduled to meet Tuesday at City Hall to review the Planning Commission's recommendations for amending Tacoma's Comprehensive Plan and Land Use Code. City Council is scheduled to hold a public hearing on the issue on Tues., May 21, and consider first and final readings of adopting ordinances on Tues., June 4 and Tues., June 11, respectively. Councilmembers will not take public comment during the study session, which will be held on Tues., May 14 at 12 p.m. in Room 16 of Tacoma Municipal Building North, 733 Market St. Audio from the meeting will be broadcast live on TV Tacoma and online at tvtacoma. com. On-demand audio archives are available on the Web within 24 hours of the meeting online at tvtacoma.com.
explore options." According to the U.S. Department of Transportation, the recently enacted Reducing Flight Delays Act will allow the FAA to transfer sufficient funds to end employee furloughs and keep the contract towers open. The FAA will also put $10 million towards reducing cuts and delays in core NextGen programs and will allocate approximately $11 million to partially restore the support of infrastructure in the national airspace system. -------------------To read the Tacoma Daily Index's complete and comprehensive coverage of the pending closure of the Tacoma Narrows Airport contract control tower, visit our archives online for the following articles: -- FAA delays Tacoma Narrows Airport control tower closure (Tacoma Daily Index, April 5, 2013); -- FAA to close Tacoma Narrows Airport control tower (Tacoma Daily Index, March 22, 2013); -- WSDOT urges FAA to keep Tacoma Narrows Airport control tower open (Tacoma Daily Index, March 12, 2013); -- Sequestration may close FAA contract control tower at Tacoma Narrows Airport (Tacoma Daily Index, March 6, 2013).
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City Council expected to accept $31M in grants for Tacoma roadway projects By Todd Matthews, Editor Tacoma City Council is scheduled to vote Tuesday on a resolution to formally accept 16 grants totaling just over $31 million to pay for a variety of infrastructure projects ranging from roadways, bridges, trails, bikeways and a public esplanade. Among the projects to receive big-dollar grants: nearly $20 million to replace a large section of the Puyallup River Bridge; $3 million to repair the bridge deck on the Union Avenue Viaduct; $1.88 million to repair the Schuster Parkway Bridge; $1.5 million to upgrade the city's infrastructure for cyclists and pedestrians; and nearly $1.3 million to upgrade signs and pavement markings at traffic signals at various intersections citywide. "The City has aggressively applied for grants for numerous infrastructure projects," wrote Tacoma Public Works engineer Chris Larson in an April 19 memo. "The projects are scheduled for design and construction during the next few years." The complete list of projects includes Puyallup River Bridge ($19,150,000); Union Ave Viaduct ($3,000,000); Schuster Parkway ($1,880,000); Top 4 Bikeways ($1,500,000); Citywide Safety Improvements ($1,294,950); South Mildred Street improvements between South 12th Street and South 19th Street ($942,792); Pacific Avenue Streetscape Project ($800,000); Milwaukee Way / Lincoln Avenue to Marshall Street ($750,000); Historic Water Ditch Trail Phase Three and Four ($600,000); Thea Foss Waterway sites 10 and 11 ($550,000); South 72nd Street and Hosmer Street at the Interstate-5 onramp ($340,000); and South 25th Street Corridor signal improvements ($251,097). Tacoma City Council is scheduled to vote on the resolution to accept the grant funding during its meeting on Tues., May 14 at 5 p.m. in City Council Chambers on the first floor of the Tacoma Municipal Building, located at 747 Market Street. Council meetings are streamed live online at tvtacoma.com and broadcast live on TV Tacoma. A copy of the agenda is available online at cms.cityoftacoma.org/cityclerk/ Files/CityCouncil/Agendas/2013-FullAgendas/Full20130514.pdf.