Defenders Of Highline Forest Sandy Hunt Comments On Land Stewardship Plan 20240105 0001

Re: Community Input on Pod of Seattle Draft Final Land Stewardship Plan Dear Port of Seattle Aviation Environmental Inforrnation Officials. Executive Director Metruck, Commission President Cho, Vice President Mohamed, Commissioners Calkins, Felleman, and Hasegawa, Having reviewed the Port’s Draft Final Land Stewardship Plan' (LSP), dated November 2023 section by section, line by line, I am writing to share my feedback on both the scope and the substance of this new plan in light of the five Land Stewardship Principles adopted last summer by the Port. I have taken this approach because it is imperative that our Port Commissioners adopt a Land Stewardship Plan that is equitable, community-centered, environmentally sound, comprehensive, holistic, and, thus, aligned with the adopted principles. This is important work because: Our elected Port Commissioners adopted these principles in order to direct Port Departments, managers, decision-makers, and their staff (i.e., “Port Actors”) to apply an equity and environmental justice lens to their land stewardship with the goal of improving lives of airport neighbors who have been historically underserved and marginalized. Port Commissioners and Port Actors are being directed to use this plan to address the environmental disparities their past actions have exacerbated between those who are advantaged (economically and otherwise) and those who have disproportionately borne the negative health, safety, and economic consequences of living around the airport. The Land Stewardship Principles, as will be operationalized in an equitable Land Stewardship Plan, must be used to hold Port Actors accountable to operate, plan and develop Port land in…

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Call to order – Roll Call – Quorum Established – Land Acknowledgement We would like to acknowledge that our Agency operates in four present-day counties, which are the traditional lands of the Coast Salish people, past and present. This acknowledgement does not take the place of authentic relationships with indigenous communities in our jurisdiction and [...]