Re-do of Joni Mitchell's Big Yellow Taxi for North SeaTac Park near SeaTac International Airport
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Date: 07/08/2022

Join in celebrating to protect North SeaTac Park, an at-risk 200-acre urban oasis next door to SeaTac International Airport on Sunday Aug 21, 2022 from 1-4PM

https://KCTreeEquity.org

Sign the Consensus to protect this park and the trees in the surrounding community that are connected with the forest in the park and that guard the health of the people in this near airport community.

The Port, a government agency, owns this park and the airport. It removed 100s of people from this land in the 1970s and 80s. The land was turned into a park, according to the FAA, "to compensate area residents for cumulative airport impacts." But, somehow, the park became zoned aviation commercial instead of "park" and then the Port created a deal with the new City of SeaTac for 55 acres of the park to be able to be removed from park status "at any time" and drew up "conceptual site considerations" for 340,000 square feet of "aviation supportive use" and a new "food innovation center" inside that area of the park. (Port of Seattle 2020 Real Estate Strategic Plan, p. 14. https://www.portseattle.org/sites/default/files/2021-10/2020_Real_Estate_Strategic_Plan.pdf) After intense public pressure, the Port recently stated that it did not have current plans to develop this land. However, their site considerations can be turned into plans at any time. And the Port also proposes an estimated 75 additional acres of airport expansion on tree-covered land in the City of SeaTac. This is in an area where Public Health King County-Seattle has recommended expanding tree and greenspace coverage to protect residents from airport pollution that is shortening lives in this community, and causing babies to be born early and premature.