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Minutes from a community planning workshop (Meeting #4) in which residents from neighborhoods near Sea-Tac Airport — including Valley View, Riverton Heights, Marvista, Des Moines, North Hill, Shorewood, and Highline College — identified what they valued most about their communities, such as natural scenery, views, schools, and open space. Participants also discussed what regulations might be needed to protect those qualities, including building height controls, green belt preservation, clean-air policies, and safe pedestrian pathways. A comprehensive land use plan was proposed that would balance residential, industrial, recreational, and conservation needs while ensuring local residents have a meaningful voice in decisions affecting their neighborhoods.

This November 2022 City of SeaTac presentation to the Highline Forum provides a snapshot of the city's key statistics, highlighting its diverse community of approximately 32,000 residents who speak more than 85 languages. The city also serves as a major regional hub, with around 6,000 hotel rooms, roughly 35,000 employees working within city boundaries, and more than 140,000 people passing through daily.

The Highline Community Council is a nonprofit, nonpartisan organization representing residents of the Highline School District #401 area, governed by ten elected and fifteen appointed members drawn from five high school service districts. The Council's stated goals include liaising between the community and government, promoting orderly development, and encouraging civic participation. Members must be at least 18 years old and reside within the Highline Community boundaries.

The King County Landmarks Commission formally designated Hillgrove Cemetery, located on 200th Street South between 15th and 16th Streets, as a community landmark on August 12, 1982. The cemetery, owned by the Hillgrove Cemetery Association, was recognized for containing the graves of settlers and pioneers significant to the development of the Highline area near what is now the Sea-Tac region. The designation protects the cemetery's plots, gravestones, entrance, trees, and landscape features from alteration without Commission approval.

Minutes from the Highline Community Council meeting held August 12, 1982, covering local governance topics including a discussion on the proposed incorporation of Highline, a King County Council decision to pursue senior housing instead of a planned Civic Center, and updates from the Citizens to Save Puget Sound Committee. The council also approved sending congratulations to a newly appointed Metro Council member and scheduled a candidates night event for October before the General Election.

North Issue #15 addresses a zoning change proposal for a property in the Highline Communities area near Sea-Tac Airport. The property, currently zoned ML (Light Manufacturing), was the subject of a panel-recommended amendment dated January 27, 1981, proposing a reclassification to SR (Single Family Residential) at a density of one unit per acre. The recommended changes would update both the Highline Communities Land Use Plan Map and the Area Zoning pages to reflect the shift from industrial to single-family use.

This February 20, 1980 errata document lists official corrections to the Highline Zoning Plan, a proposed area zoning document and accompanying maps covering communities in the Highline area near Seattle. The corrections update specific zoning designations on several map sections, such as changing certain parcels to residential multi-family (RM) or business-commercial (B-C) classifications, and fix a text sequencing error in the zoning document. These adjustments reflect policy decisions aimed at guiding land use—including residential density and commercial development—in neighborhoods in the vicinity of what is now Sea-Tac Airport.

The Highline Community Council's proposed bylaws from 1978 outline the structure and objectives of an independent, nonprofit community organization serving the Highline School District #401 area near Seattle. The Council consists of fifteen elected members drawn from five high school service districts, plus ten appointed members, and aims to represent residents by liaising between the community and government on issues including local development and community betterment. While the document primarily addresses governance and membership rules, it reflects the organized civic framework through which Highline-area residents — including those affected by Sea-Tac Airport noise — could formally engage with public policy decisions.

This document contains membership records and meeting minutes from the Highline Community Council, a neighborhood civic organization in the Highline area south of Seattle (near Sea-Tac Airport), dated September 14, 1978. The membership list includes elected representatives from five districts — Evergreen, Glacier, Highline, Mount Rainier, and Tyee — along with their addresses and phone numbers. The meeting minutes record attendance, treasurer's report (noting $17.43 in the treasury and $29.69 in outstanding bills), and a brief committee update on the dormant Social Action Committee.