From:            Mark Hoppen
To:                Commission-Public-Records
Cc:                Kaplan, Dave
Subject:           [EXTERNAL] Support for Inclusive Changes to the ACE Program
Date:              Monday, April 27, 2020 10:20:15 AM
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Dear Port of Seattle Commissioners,
The City of Normandy Park supports inclusive changes being considered for the
ACE program that propose to include Normandy Park, Tukwila and Federal
Way, and appreciates the Port of Seattle Commissioners for its deliberation.
The City of Normandy Park has a community programmed system of open
spaces, trails, active recreation parks, and natural amenities that preserve the
City's natural beauty and ecology, while engaging residents in a variety of
healthy active and passive recreation opportunities. The City maintains
longitudinal commitment to ecological restoration of its 78 acres of forested
woodland parks, all of which are downstream of Sea-Tac International Airport
operations, as are similar or identical riverine systems in the cities of Burien
and Des Moines.
For the past 10 years, consistent with its City of Normandy ParkParks
Recreation and Open Space Plan, the city has sponsored forest restoration
projects in Nature Trails, Walker Preserve and Marine View parks with the
assistance of Washington Conservation Corps, Earthcorps, WRIA 9, and
Restoration Analytics & Design. The Community Foresters First Saturdays
program at Marine View Park focuses on community volunteer and steward
education, engagement, outreach, management and retention. In 2019, work
parties and workshops had 486 volunteer service hours. Our volunteers came
from Normandy Park, Burien, Des Moines, Seattle, and Issaquah. For years,
Normandy Park nonprofits have engaged the very activities that ACE supports.
Normandy Park hopes to utilize ACE funding in the future.
For instance, in 2021, the City of Normandy Park would like to partner with the
Friends of Normandy Park (501c3) to continue the Community Foresters First

Saturdays Program. The Friends of Normandy Park is a local charitable nonprofit
that focuses on helping make the City of Normandy Park a healthy
ecology through nonprofit activity and donation.
Normandy Park contains riverine, forested, natural features that are directly
connected to Sea-Tac International Airport operational by-products. When the
safety zone at the airport removes trees and alters vegetation patterns, our city
streams and forests are affected as much or more than similar or identical
systems in Des Moines and Burien.Normandy Parkbears the brunt of these
changes in our streams, surrounding forests, beaches, and Puget Sound
waters. Considering all King County cities, Normandy Park is the third most
densely forested city area per square mile, exceeded in this regard only by
Black Diamond and Beaux Arts Village.
Consequently, we support changes to the ACE program that make it
appropriately inclusive, and think such changes should be permanent with
regard to the City of Normandy Park and its nonprofit efforts.
Mark E. Hoppen, ICMA-CM | City Manager
City of Normandy Park
801 SW 174thStreet
Normandy Park, WA 98166 
(206) 248-8246 (direct)
(253) 279-2415 (cell)