"While I and a majority of the council personally
remain opposed to commercial air service at Paine Field, due to
federal requirements, the County Council had no other
choice..."
Source: Snohomish County Executive Aaron
Reardon, commenting on a vote this week to allow negotiation of
terms for construction of a new terminal at Paine Field in Everett,
WA with Allegiant Air and Horizon Air. The talks remove a barrier
to the receipt of FAA funding to repair Paine's crumbling runways,
and came over significant NIMBY objections.