HeraldNet: More gain than pain for Everett from Paine Field flights



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The Petri Dish

July 17, 2008

More gain than pain for Everett from Paine Field flights

Posted at 8:02 am by Jerry Cornfield

In today’s paper are details of a new study that concludes the city of Everett could reap loads of benefits from commercial jets providing passenger service in and out of Paine Field.

The report’s executive summary predicted minimal impact on values of homes near the airport and suggested ways of dealing with negative effects on the quality of life of residents such as increased noise from the jets.

The city paid $70,000 to Thomas/Lane & Associates for the work.

This firm did not present quite the same view when it considered how Sea-Tac International Airport affects the value of homes in its neighboring communities.

Here’s the opening line of that 1998 study:

Airports generate noise, visual blight, surface traffic congestion, possible air pollution and other effects which cause most households to consider residential areas immediately surrounding them less desirable places to live.

It concludes:

The argument advanced here is simply that living under the “shadow” of an airport’s flight paths for approaching/departing aircraft will reduce the real estate market valuation of a residence.

Since noise effects, health effects, visual blight, or other possible impacts are inseparably bundled when viewed from the perspective of a home owner experiencing approaching/departing aircraft directly over head, the important distinction is not between different noise level contours within which housing units are located, but between a residential housing unit’s distance from being directly under the flight track of approaching and departing aircraft.

Sea-Tac and Paine Field are two very different airports today as they were then. That may explain the noticeably different tone and perspective on the potential impacts of the airports on their respective communities.

Or maybe it has to do with who pays for the product.

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