review online at soundtransit.org\/system-expansion\/operations-maintenance-facility-south\/documents.<\/a> Public copies are available at Kent City Hall and the Federal Way Community Center.<\/p>\nPeople with disabilities may request an accommodation to participate in an online public meeting by calling 1-800-201-4900\/TTY Relay: 711 or emailing Sagar.Ramachandra@soundtransit.org.<\/p>\n
Translation assistance for limited English proficiency persons is available for participating in the online public meeting and reviewing the Draft EIS. Call Sound Transit at 1-800-823-9230\/TTY Relay: 711 or email Sagar.Ramachandra@soundtransit.org<\/p>\n
An Operations and Maintenance Facility is where light rail trains go for cleaning, storage and maintenance. To keep its entire light rail system functioning, Sound Transit needs to strategically locate four OMFs that operate 24 hours a day, year-round.<\/p>\n
The Sound Transit Board will consider the analysis in the Draft EIS, as well as public, agency and tribal comments, and additional information before identifying a preferred alternative for the OMF South later this year. Sound Transit will then prepare a Final EIS. After publication of the Final EIS, the Board will make a final decision on the project to be built.<\/p>\n
Voter-approved expansion projects not currently in construction face an unprecedented and extremely challenging financial environment. The pandemic-driven recession, which has severely reduced consumer spending and tax revenues, has converged with increased cost estimates driven by real estate and construction market pressures.<\/p>\n
The Sound Transit Board has begun a realignment process that is moving forward under a two-pronged approach. The first prong prioritizes aggressively seeking new federal and state funding to help bridge an $11.5 billion affordability gap for completing projects on their original schedules.<\/p>\n
To the extent that sufficient new resources are not secured, the board’s second prong, as required by the ST3 Plan, will utilize the plan’s identified tools to ensure affordability under updated projections for current revenue sources.<\/p>\n
Information on the realignment process is available at https:\/\/www.soundtransit.org\/system-expansion\/realignment<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Operations and Maintenance Facility South to be built in Kent or Federal Way; public comment begins <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":106,"featured_media":49072,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,4],"tags":[],"yst_prominent_words":[],"class_list":["post-49071","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-home","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49071"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/106"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=49071"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49071\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/49072"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=49071"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=49071"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=49071"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=49071"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}