HomeMy WebLinkAbout1199 WHERE/m, the City of Tacoma is now constructing a modern
airport on the Peninsula in Pierce County, Washington, across the
waters of the Narrows from the City of Tacoma, which is named the
Tacoma Industrial Airport and which will be completed in May of
1967, and, in connection therewith, has petitioned the Civil Aero-
nautics Board for a recertification of said airport for local air
service by the West Coast Airlines, and
WHEREAS, the City of Bremerton, Washington, is a city of
the first class located in Kitsap County and approximately nineteen
miles north of said airport, and
WHEREAS, the City of Bremerton and the area sglrrounding
said city is enjoying a rapid economic and population growth,
Bremerton's population having increased between 1940 and 1950 from
15,134 to 27,678, which growth has continued until it has reached
a population of 37,000 as of April 1, 1962, with the rank of sixth
largest city in the State of Washington according to the report of
the Census Board, State of Washington, and
WHEREAS, Bremerton has located within its limits and in
the surrounding area many large and important industrial and manu-
facturing firms and business establishments, including the Bremerton
Naval Yard, and is within or bordering upon the Peninsula area in
which is located Tacoma's Industrial Airport, and
WHEREAS, Bremerton and the surrounding area has no local
air service conveniently available, nor ~is the City of Bremerton
named in any certificate issued by the Board; that the nearest
airports furnishing such local air service are the Municipal Airport
of the City of Olympia, Washington, and the King County airport
known as Boeing Field, three miles south of Seattle, Washington,
both of which airports are being presently served by West Coast
Airlines; that the Olympia Airport is located approximately sixty-
three miles from Bremerton; that Boeing Field in Seattle is separated
from Bremerton by the waters of Puget Sound; that in order to use
the facilities of said airport it is necessary for the residents
of Bremerton and of the surrounding area to ferry across said
Puget Sound to Seattle and to thereafter traverse a major part of
the city through congested areas in order to reach said Boeing
Field; that, as a result thereof, Bremerton and Kitsap County are
not within the service area of either Olympia or Boeing Field in
Seattle, but within the proposed service area that would be ser-
viced by the Tacoma Industrial Airport inasmuch as said airpQrt is
located only approximately nineteen miles from Bremerton and is
reached by a modern sixty-mile limit highway traversing noncongested
areas, and
WHEREAS, it is necessary that the City of Bremerton and
the surrounding area have available for use and be afforded local
air service for the continued economic and population growth and
the welfare of Bremerton and of its surrounding area, and that West
Coast Airlines, Inc., be again certificated for direct scheduled
air service to this area through the Tacoma Industrial Airport;
Now, There f or e,
BE IT RESOLVED BY THE COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF BREMERTON:
That the Civil Aeronautics Board be and is hereby urged
and requested, in accordance with the petition of the City of
Tacoma, to grant direct scheduled air service by the addition of
Tacoma to Route 77, West Coast Airlines, Inc., and that the City
of Tacoma be added to Segments 2, 3, 6 and 9 of said Route 77 of
West Coast Airlines, Inc., as intermediate point to be served
through the Tacoma Industrial Airport.
PASSED AND APPROVED by the City Council of the City of
Bremerton, signed by the Mayor and attested by the City Clerk in
authentication of such passage this ~/~*/-~/day of ~'~///~, 196_~C.~
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ATTEST:
E. H. T. McGOWAN, CITY CLERK