TAKE ACTION
Before December 5, 2024: Tell the Port and Federal Aviation Administration that it has erred in its current draft Environmental Assessment by concluding that there will be no significant impacts to the human environment if the Port of Seattle paves over 80+ acres of urban forest in the neighborhoods near the airport and replaces them with polluting sources like cargo warehouses and parking lots (as planned in the Port’s current so-called “SUSTAINABLE” Airport Master Plan, or SAMP.) Tell these agencies that there must at least be full consideration in the form of an Environmental Impact Statement.
Reach Out to Port Commissioners To write Commissioners, see info below. To speak or send public comment to a meeting, Sign up by 9AM on the day of the meeting by emailing commission-public-records@portseattle.org with your topic and date. Indicate if you wish to speak and a meeting link will be sent. Sign in to speak by 11:30.
Sign up for Port Notices: When the Port plans actions, it must provide public notice. Sign up here for these alerts and for notice of government meetings including the Highline Forum and SeaTac Stakeholders Advisory Roundtable that also impact airport policy.
Sign the Community Forest Consensus: Join more than 3,700 other community members in signing the Consensus HERE.
Join us to reach out to others. Write info@defendersofhighlineforest.org to connect with us on ways you can help bring needed change.
Members of Defenders of Highline Forest, Tree Action Seattle, Seattle Needs Trees, The Last 6,000 and Extinction Rebellion met at the Port of Seattle Commission’s December 12 meeting to critique the Port’s proposed Land Stewardship Plan and Tree Replacement Program. Photo: Katie Kresly and Sandy Shettler.
Reaching Port Commissioners
Two methods of contact:
Sending an email in time for a meeting? Deadline is 9AM on the day of. Include your full name and topic. Use email address commission-public-records@portseattle.org. See more info/links above.
Sending at any other time, you can use Commissioners’ direct email addresses: calkins.r@portseattle.org, cho.s@portseattle.org, felleman.f@portseattle.org, hasegawa.t@portseattle.org, mohamed.h@portseattle.org
Dear Commission President Cho, Vice President Hasegawa, and Commissioners Calkins, Felleman, and Mohamed,
Reaching SeaTac Councilmembers
jsimpson@seatacwa.gov, snegusse@seatacwa.gov, megal@seatacwa.gov,iguzman@seatacwa.gov, pkwon@seatacwa.gov, jlovell@setacwa.gov, jvinson@seatacwa.gov
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Salutation
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Dear Mayor Egal, Deputy Mayor Guzman, and Councilmembers Kwon, Lovell, Negusse, Simpson, and Vinson,
