January 2017

information from the City of SeaTac

Beginning Tuesday, January 17, the City’s Permit Center will no longer accept new applications or payments after 4:30 PM. This change is being made to insure the prompt administration and processing of those applications and permits already submitted and in-progress. The third floor lobby hours will remain 8:30 AM –5:00 PM Monday through Friday and staff will be available during those hours of operation.

About the Cityof SeaTac:
Incorporated in February 1990, the City of SeaTac is located approximately midway between the cities of Seattle and Tacoma.The City of SeaTac is 10 square miles in area and has a population of28,251.The City is a vibrant community, economically strong, environmentally sensitive, and people-oriented.The City boundaries surround the Seattle-Tacoma International Airport, (approximately 3 square miles in area) which is owned and operated by the Port of Seattle.

By Lindsay Peyton

Things are heating up in White Center – with a new barbecue joint coming to town.

Restaurateur Nate Rezac is heading south with his Drunky Two Shoes BBQ concept.

The restaurant has become a Frelard favorite, and Rezac is hoping his second location will make a splash in White Center.

Customers crowd into the original spot, where the kitchen serves up piles of smoked chicken, beef brisket and pork ribs – along with cold beer, a full bar and live music on the stage.

The second location in White Center will offer all the same trimmings – but on an even larger scale.

Rezac is busy transforming the former DK’s Café spot, 9655 16th Ave SW, into a rustic, playful homage to the roadside barbecue joints he frequented during his childhood in Texas.

Crews are adding reclaimed barn wood inside and out, making colorful light fixtures from old rusty bean cans and building exterior tables out of dissected pick-up truck beds.

Inside, there will be chainsaw chandeliers, red velvet walls in the “Elvis booth” and another seating area dedicated to Jesus, complete with a giant cross.

By Amanda Knox

On the morning of December 21st I scanned my Twitter feed as usual and came across this video. Like many other Twitter users, I was alarmed by what I saw: two young Muslim-American men were being escorted against their will off their Delta flight. One of the men, Adam Saleh, explained that the reason he and his friend were being kicked off was because neighboring passengers had overheard them speaking Arabic and had protested to the flight staff that this made them uncomfortable. Saleh’s camera panned over these passengers, who waved Saleh and his friend off the plane with glee. The camera then panned over other passengers who looked embarrassed and bewildered, and still others who proclaimed their dismay over how Saleh and his friend were being mistreated. “ Because I was speaking a different language, you feel uncomfortable?” cried Saleh. “ This is 2016! I’m about to cry right now!”

By Amanda Knox
 
On the morning of December 21st I scanned my Twitter feed as usual and came across this video. Like many other Twitter users, I was alarmed by what I saw: two young Muslim-American men were being escorted against their will off their Delta flight. One of the men, Adam Saleh, explained that the reason he and his friend were being kicked off was because neighboring passengers had overheard them speaking Arabic and had protested to the flight staff that this made them uncomfortable. Saleh’s camera panned over these passengers, who waved Saleh and his friend off the plane with glee. The camera then panned over other passengers who looked embarrassed and bewildered, and still others who proclaimed their dismay over how Saleh and his friend were being mistreated. “Because I was speaking a different language, you feel uncomfortable?” cried Saleh. “This is 2016! I’m about to cry right now!”
 

King County Sheriff's detectives arrested a man near 128th and Des Moines Way South on Jan. 3 that was wanted in connection with a burglary last week in Skyway.

Cindi West, Public Information Officer for King County Sheriff said, "When our deputies were chasing one of the burglars he shot at one of our deputies. We located one of the suspects today at a house nearby.

He was arrested. We are doing search warrant at the house now but still waiting for the warrants to get signed."

A Land Use Application to allow a four-story apartment building containing 27 small efficiency dwelling units and 39 apartment units in an environmentally critical area at 2222 SW Barton Street has been filed with Seattle's Department of Planning and Development. Existing structure to be demolished. The project would be called Barton Terrace. No parking would be provided.

From the Traffic Study (see link)
"In detail, the project mix includes 27 SEDU’s, 4 regular efficiency units, 8 studio units with den, 23 one bedroom units, and 4 two bedroom units. No parking is proposed on the site. There will be a driveway for loading / unloading and garbage truck access off the alley at the north end of the building. The primary entrance is on the south at SW Barton Street, but a secondary access is planned at the basement level close to the bike storage are on the north side. The current plan includes area for 30 bike storage racks inside the building.
There is no minimum parking requirement for this site as it is located in the Westwood- Highland Park Residential Urban Village zone and the site is located (per SDCI GIS) in a frequent transit corridor."

By Peggy Sturdivant

I hate a late Friday surprise. That’s why I don’t always read Friday’s “Office of the Mayor” email if I’ve had a long week. I don’t recall when I read the Mayor’s December 9, 2016 missive, but I distinctly remembering screaming.

What I consider a bombshell was masquerading as a headline: “City uses surplus property to support affordable housing.”
No. No. No. The Mayor of Seattle cannot just decide to sell surplus property. Or does Mayor Murray’s claim of a creative way to finance affordable housing render the guidelines null and void?

The surprise isn’t that the City of Seattle has property that no longer is needed by various departments for its original purpose. The shocker is that with a paragraph in his weekly newsletter Mayor Ed Murray changed the definition of “surplus property” to “available for sale.”

Frankly there’s no land owned by the City that should be considered excess or surplus. We’re out of land. As my colleague Mary Fleck of Seattle Green Spaces Coalition counters with regard to any of the city’s holdings, “that property isn’t surplus to the people.”

West Seattle Meaningful Movies will present Promised Land at 7:00 PM, Saturday, January 7, 2017
by Corey Elliot at the High Point Neighborhood House, 6400 Sylvan Way SW Seattle, WA

Promised Land is a social justice documentary that follows two tribes in the Pacific Northwest: the Duwamish and the Chinook, as they fight for the restoration of treaty rights they’ve long been denied. In following their story, the film examines a larger problem in the way that the government and society still looks at tribal sovereignty.

http://www.promisedlanddoc.com/

By Amanda Knox

On the morning of December 21st I scanned my Twitter feed as usual and came across this video. Like many other Twitter users, I was alarmed by what I saw: two young Muslim-American men were being escorted against their will off their Delta flight. One of the men, Adam Saleh, explained that the reason he and his friend were being kicked off was because neighboring passengers had overheard them speaking Arabic and had protested to the flight staff that this made them uncomfortable. Saleh’s camera panned over these passengers, who waved Saleh and his friend off the plane with glee. The camera then panned over other passengers who looked embarrassed and bewildered, and still others who proclaimed their dismay over how Saleh and his friend were being mistreated. “Because I was speaking a different language, you feel uncomfortable?” cried Saleh. “This is 2016! I’m about to cry right now!”