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An extension of Renton airport (left) would put the runway and taxiway right into Renton High School (right), which is about to undergo a half-billion dollar rebuild.
In 2020 the City of Renton worked diligently with the FAA to avoid an airport reclassification which would have required Renton to extend our runway and taxiway one-thousand feet into Renton High School and the nearby homes and businesses. The arguments Renton made to avoid the extension leaned heavily on the fact that almost all our air traffic was lightweight propeller aircraft with just one or two carefully-orchestrated new 737 takeoffs per day. We barely prevailed….if the jet operations had been any more numerous, we would have needed to extend the airport into the neighborhood and school.
Today, to the dismay of impacted residents, Renton School District is purchasing and/or condemning much of the same neighborhood property that we protected in 2020, in order to amass land for a half-billion dollar rebuild of Renton High School. (The average Renton household will pay about $1000 per year in additional property tax for 22 years to fund this rebuild.)
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