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This document is a First Amendment to an Interlocal Agreement between the cities of Burien, Des Moines, Normandy Park, and SeaTac for the environmental review of the Sea-Tac Airport Sustainable Airport Master Plan (SAMP), originally dated March 6, 2018. The amendment updates Paragraph 7 to clarify that contract management responsibilities — including consultant oversight, invoice coordination, and meeting arrangements — shall be administered by the City of Des Moines. All other terms of the original agreement remain unchanged, and the amendment was signed by authorized representatives of all four cities in 2020.

This document describes existing land uses near Seattle-Tacoma International Airport (SEA) as part of a Part 150 noise study. It draws on King County parcel and assessor data to categorize land use across nearby communities including Burien, Des Moines, Federal Way, Normandy Park, SeaTac, Tukwila, and unincorporated King County. The City of Burien, for example, is predominantly single-family residential (about 70% of its land area), with smaller shares dedicated to open space, commercial development, and institutional uses.

Joint comment letter filed August 20, 2026 by the Cities of SeaTac, Burien, and Des Moines to Port Of Seattle Senior Environmental Program Manager Steve Rybolt on the Draft SEPA Environmental Impact Statement (DEIS) for the Sustainable Airport Master Plan Near-Term Projects (SAMP NTPs) at Seattle-Tacoma International Airport (SEA). The letter documents cross-cutting deficiencies in

In July 2026, the city managers of Burien, Des Moines, and SeaTac jointly wrote to Port of Seattle Commissioners demanding that the public comment period for the Sustainable Airport Master Plan's Draft Environmental Impact Statement be extended from 60 to at least 120 days. The cities argued that the document's enormous size (over 6,000 pages), technical complexity, and missing underlying data made meaningful review within 60 days impossible, particularly for lower-resource community members most affected by airport impacts. The letter also called on the Port to honor its own equity commitments by ensuring historically overburdened communities surrounding the airport have a genuine opportunity to participate in the review process.