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Fwd: [EXTERNAL] Re: Port of Seattle ORCA Card Order
From Payne, Aubree <Payne.A@portseattle.org>
Date Wed 11/20/2024 8:49 AM
To Commission-Public-Records <commission-public-records@portseattle.org>
From: Kirk Hovenkotter <Kirk@transportationchoices.org>
Date: November 19, 2024 at 3:20:58 PM PST
To: "Pritchard, Aaron" <Pritchard.A@portseattle.org>
Cc: Katy Ricchiuto <Katy@transportationchoices.org>, Matthew
Sutherland <Matthew@transportationchoices.org>, Natalie Lubsen
<Natalie@transportationchoices.org>
Subject: Re: [EXTERNAL] Re: Port of Seattle ORCA Card Order
Hi Aaron,
If it's not too late, see below:
Transportation Choices Coalition is Washington State's nonprofit
advocate for safe, sustainable, and equitable transportation, We strongly
support the Port of Seattle's ORCA Pass Pilot Program.
More people go to work at Seattle-Tacoma International Airport (SEA) on
an average day than fly out of it. SEA airport workers face challenging
traffic jams to get to work. And transportation accounts for over 40% of
King County's greenhouse gas emissions. Employer-provided ORCA
passes can address all of these challenges.
If an employee purchases a transit pass out of pocket, that costs $1,200
a year. The quickest way the Port can give airport workers a raise, make
SEA airport a better place to work, and meet our climate goals is through
an employer-provided ORCA card.
We want to thank the Commission for their leadership on moving this
ORCA Pass Pilot Program forward.
Kirk Hovenkotter, Executive Director, Transportation Choices Coalition
From: Pritchard, Aaron <Pritchard.A@portseale.org>
Sent: Tuesday, November 19, 2024 10:52 AM
To: Kirk Hovenkoer <Kirk@Transportaonchoices.org>
Cc: Katy Ricchiuto <Katy@Transportaonchoices.org>; Mahew Sutherland
<Mahew@Transportaonchoices.org>
Subject: RE: [EXTERNAL] Re: Port of Seale ORCA Card Order
11/20/24, 9:27 AM
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Thanks Kirk. If you just want to send a one paragraph of support I can
share with the Clerk and she will share today. There wont likely be any
further opportunities to support as this will basically be into action soon.
From: Kirk Hovenkoer <Kirk@Transportaonchoices.org>
Sent: Tuesday, November 19, 2024 10:49 AM
To: Pritchard, Aaron <Pritchard.A@portseale.org>
Cc: Katy Ricchiuto <Katy@Transportaonchoices.org>; Mahew Sutherland
<Mahew@Transportaonchoices.org>
Subject: [EXTERNAL] Re: Port of Seale ORCA Card Order
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Hi Aaron,
Thanks for reaching out. I strongly support this move of the port to offer
ORCA passes to employees at the airport. I would love to testify in
support, but this is a little short notice. Will there be other moments to
voice our support or submit comments?
Thanks!
Kirk
Transportaon Choices Coalion
1402 3rd Ave #310
Seale, WA 98101
425.301.4938
transportaonchoices.org
From: Pritchard, Aaron <Pritchard.A@portseale.org>
Sent: Monday, November 18, 2024 4:38 PM
To: Kirk Hovenkoer <Kirk@Transportaonchoices.org>
Subject: Fw: Port of Seale ORCA Card Order
Kirk: Commissioner Mohamed asked that I send you this Order that will be coming up
tomorrow as part of the Commission public meeng. You and I chaed about this a
while back in Occidental Square. If you are interested in providing some public
tesmony you can sign up here to tesfy virtually: Commission-public-
records@portseale.org
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Congrats on your victory! We got a nice note from Director Spos for the
Commissioners support of the Levy. Now the hard part!
Aaron Pritchard
Chief of Staff
Port of Seattle Commission
206-549-8063
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[EXTERNAL] A change in policy needed for development lease agreements
From Sandy Hunt <huntsl77@gmail.com>
Date Tue 11/19/2024 5:24 AM
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Cc Sandy Hunt <sandyh@defendersofhighlineforest.org>
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On behalf of the Defenders of Highline Forest as well as members of Save Des Moines
Greenspace and Wetlands, I am emailing the Port of Seattle to submit two sets of linked
documents for the Port's official public records. The first set of linked documents have been
generated over the course of the appeal of the Mitigated Determination of Nonsignificance
that the City of Des Moines initially awarded to the Panattoni LCC for the purpose of
developing the Des Moines Creek Business Park West (No. LUA2022-0044) under a lease
agreement with the Port of Seattle. This latest development of a 400,000 square foot
warehouse will destroy hundreds of significant trees, disrupt access to a key segment of a
regional trail system, and fails to even consider the impact on air quality, noise, and heat that
the 800 car/truck trips per day will have on a vulnerable, marginalized neighborhood
located directly under the flightpath.
Appeal Documentation Submitted to Port of Seattle-…
In addition, I wish to submit for the public record, all documents generated by the latest
Panattoni development by the City of Des Moines that are linked to the City of Des Moines
Permitting Department under No. LUA2022-0044.
We contend that these documents, and all public documents generated during the course of
the development of any and all property owned by the Port of Seattle, should automatically be
submitted to and co-housed in the Port, and not just in the jurisdiction where the development
occurs. All information generated during the course of the SEPA process is critical to
understanding the current and historical development of Port of Seattle properties and any
impact on the environment including the health of plants, trees, animals, and humans living
near and around Port of Seattle property. Without such a practice in place, the Port of Seattle,
as a public entity with a real estate division (no less), requires the public to gather records
from five or six local jurisdictions, the county, and possibly the state as well.
This lack of access to key records is particularly troublesome in cases like the Des Moines
Creek Business Park development where the latest development is the third (or is it the
fourth?) phase of a massive project (around 5.5 million square feet of tree-covered land
cumulatively will be bull-dozed to build warehouses, parking lots, and the FAA building).
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This project was carried out over many years and over two local jurisdictions: Des Moines
and Seatac. Unfortunately, such phased-in developments can lead to findings where each
development in and of itself is nonsignificant, however, when taken as a whole, the records
reveal that the cumulative impacts are significant.
In conclusion, citizen activists are asking for a change in policy, one in which the Port of
Seattle takes responsibility for directing its leasing agents to submit its SEPA Determination
and Checklist along with all other documents related to the SEPA determination that
currently are housed within jurisdictions where Port of Seattle develops its property. This
policy would support greater transparency and knowledge for the public when it comes to the
Port of Seattle's development of real estate.
Sincerely,
Sandy Hunt
on behalf of the Defenders of Highline Forest
and with the Permission of Save Des Moines Greenspace and Wetlands
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