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 Reasons for Hope in 2021 Spring 2021
 Editor's Note MESSAGE FROM THE CITY MANAGER
 Emily Inlow-Hood, Editor
 communications@burienwa.gov

 The theme of this issue is We marked a somber milestone this January—one year since the first Devin Chicras, Designer
 Council’s efforts to develop a Native
 coronavirus case was detected in the United States. In Burien, almost 50
 “neighborhoods”. The pandemic has land acknowledgment.
 beloved community members have been lost to the virus and close to 3,000
 meant most of us had to stick closer
 You’ll read stories of people caring have contracted the virus, with many facing long-term health consequences.
 to home. Our local block became
 for their neighborhood parks and The impacts to our economy, children’s education, and overall community
 the setting of most of our daily health will be felt for years to come. We will continue to work with regional
 volunteering to help their neighbors
 lives. As we spend more time in our and federal partners to deliver much needed relief from the economic and A quarterly magazine from the
 in need. We are also sharing
 neighborhoods, now seems the health impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic. City of Burien municipal government.
 messages of hope from some our
 right time to explore what we
 local leaders who have worked Your city government is hard at work making sure that essential government
 love about them!
 diligently to help our community services continue, despite public health restrictions that require us to adjust CITY COUNCIL
 In this issue, we introduce an make it through the pandemic. how we deliver those services. This next year, we are also kicking off new Jimmy Matta, Mayor
 important city planning process initiatives aimed at improving the health and well-being of Burien residents. jimmym@burienwa.gov
 Signs of spring are all around us.
 called subarea planning and share We launched the Rental Housing Inspection Program in January, designed Krystal Marx, Deputy Mayor
 With the continued rollout of a krystalm@burienwa.gov
 how we are working with the to ensure property owners maintain healthy and safe housing for their
 COVID-19 vaccine, more and more of
 community to plan for the future tenants. We are also expanding our Utility Tax Relief Program, with the goal Sofia Aragon, Councilmember
 us will be enjoying its protection. We sofiaa@burienwa.gov
 of the Ambaum Blvd Corridor and of enrolling everyone who is eligible for the rebate. We are also working on
 can begin to imagine a time when Burien’s first climate action plan. We’ve completed the first phase, gathering Cydney Moore, Councilmember
 Boulevard Park neighborhoods.
 we can gather in person again and data on Burien’s greenhouse emissions and overhauling our tree codes with cydneym@burienwa.gov
 As we envision the future of those reconnect in ways that haven’t been the goal of preserving our existing tree canopy. Our community development Pedro Olguin, Councilmember
 neighborhoods, it’s important to possible for more than a year. As we staff will be starting subarea planning for the Ambaum Corridor and pedroo@burienwa.gov
 also acknowledge their history. emerge from this very difficult year, Boulevard Park—two of our most economically and racially diverse Kevin Schilling, Councilmember
 In this issue, we debut the Burien now is the time look around and see neighborhoods. And our economic development staff continue to kevins@burienwa.gov
 Neighborhood Map, where you’ll how we all can invest back into our work hard to support our existing businesses, while at the same Nancy Tosta, Councilmember
 find short histories of Burien neighborhoods and our neighbors. time attracting new economic opportunities to Burien. nancyt@burienwa.gov
 neighborhoods, as well as other Throughout this work, we need to keep hearing
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 Burien residents from the negative of a Native land acknowledgment, timely and equitable manner. When
 MESSAGE FROM BURIEN CITY COUNCIL impacts of our proximity to Sea-Tac requesting more inclusive language it’s our turn, we will all be getting
 Airport. This includes contributing be used in official documents, and vaccinated, without hesitation.

 BUILDING A
 funding to a University of for the first time in Burien’s history, 2021 will be the year we advance
 Washington study of HVAC systems formally acknowledging cultural many long-standing policies that have
 that may improve indoor air quality heritage months such as Black History been of top concern to our residents.
 in Burien schools, participating in Month and Hispanic Heritage Month. Public safety conversations will

 BRIGHTER BURIEN
 Seattle-Tacoma Airport Stakeholder We will continue to strongly continue, but for now we are waiting
 Advisory Round Table (StART), advocate for pandemic relief at the to see what emerges out of state and
 and advocating with our federal state and national level and will county efforts to increase police
 legislators to pass legislation that support the distribution of relief transparency and accountability.
 protects the Burien community.
 Mayor Jimmy Matta funds as they become available. We We want to hear from you as we
 We also are adopting policies that are encouraging staff to work with
 Even though we’ve had to meet early childhood education, and wrestle with these difficult and
 ensure government services lead with partners to ensure the vaccine is complex issues. We have hope that
 via Zoom for the past year, we’ve youth success. We are discussing equity, including the development distributed to Burien residents in a
 continued working hard to serve you a Housing Action Plan that will by working together, we can build a
 and our city. Since last November, determine zoning code changes brighter future for Burien.
 we’ve made policy decisions that and other investments to support
 will help Burien navigate a tough the next twenty years of housing
 economic climate and help our
 community recover.
 needs. In 2021, we will be setting the
 stage for significant updates to our
 ORDINANCES, RESOLUTIONS,
 Deputy Mayor Councilmember In December, we approved a Comprehensive Plan, including the
 establishment of employment and
 and PROCLAMATIONS
 Krystal Marx Sofia Aragon balanced budget for the next two
 housing targets through 2044.
 years. Even before the pandemic, Find links to ordinances, resolutions, and proclamations passed by the Burien
 revenues were projected to be lower The effects of climate change are City Council between October and March at burienwa.gov/council.
 this biennium due to the loss of the being felt today, with more frequent
 sales tax annexation credit. The and severe winter storms and drier Ordinances: Council passed Ordinance Nos. 747–757. The ordinances covered
 economic downturn means the city summers. Council approved the many topics including approval of the 2021–22 biennial budget, zoning code
 has even less revenue to support Green Burien Partnership Urban amendments to allow legacy storefronts in residential neighborhoods,
 city services, which means we have Forest Stewardship Plan, which Comprehensive Plan amendments, and grocery worker pandemic hazard pay.
 had to make hard choices. Despite a sets an ambitious goal of gaining 40
 more limited budget, however, we
 have passed new laws and approved
 percent tree cover by 2038. We will
 be tackling our tree regulations to
 Resolutions: Council passed Resolution Nos. 436–451. The resolutions
 covered many topics including sale of municipal property for a multi-
 GET INVOLVED
 Councilmember Councilmember city work programs that will benefit ensure we protect our existing tree housing development in downtown Burien, pandemic-related amendments
 Cydney Moore Pedro Olguin Burien now and in the future. canopy. We will also be engaging to the plastic bag ban and compostable serviceware ordinance, support for
 While the pandemic has made it
 with staff on their progress on the federal and state initiatives to allow remitters that transfer funds to “high-
 As a region, we are facing harder for us to meet in person,
 Burien Climate Action Plan and risk” countries be allowed to hold bank accounts in Washington state, new
 an affordable housing crisis
 encourage residents to get involved business license and rental housing license fees, approval of a Habitat for there are still ways to stay
 and increased housing and
 food insecurity. We approved with that planning process. Humanity affordable housing development, and approval of the Green Burien involved. Find information on
 approximately $330,000 in funding Councilmembers, in partnership Partnership Urban Forest Stewardship Plan. how to contact us, attend council
 to human services agencies with the Burien Airport Committee,
 Proclamations: Council issued six proclamations on a wide range of topics
 meetings, read summaries of past
 addressing housing, family have made significant progress in council meetings, and more at
 including citizens of the year, Affordable Housing Week, Human Trafficking
 violence, health, living wage jobs, advocating for more protection for
 Awareness Month, Black History Month, and Women’s History Month. burienwa.gov/council.

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 Planning for the Future of A Place to Call Burien Housing
 Boulevard Park and the
 Quick Facts

 Ambaum Corridor
 Why does planning matter?
 By Susan McLain, Community
 Development Director
 Planning will include the
 following activities: Taking Action to Solve
 Burien’s Housing Chal
 lenges 9.3 housing units
 Community Planning can help shape
 produced for every
 Community planning is an opportunity ᘩ Understanding the unique neighborhoods’ futures. Burien is
 for neighborhood stakeholders to
 shape the future of our city—to ensure
 characteristics of each
 neighborhood, past and present.
 located within a growing region.
 Our people and cultures are diverse,
 10 new households 1

 45%
 livable, healthy communities as Burien and our needs continue to evolve.
 grows and changes. Burien is launching ᘩ Engaging with community Planning is a way for communities to
 planning projects in two neighborhood members from diverse prepare for the future, with an eye
 areas in 2021: backgrounds and experiences, toward meeting the needs of people By Nicole Gaudette, Senior Planner crafted alongside a public outreach increase in average 2-bedroom rent 2

 101%
 including people typically not who live, work, and visit here now. process that listened to the needs and
 Ambaum Corridor: Planning efforts engaged in civic processes. There has been a lot of rain. A lot. In desires of residents, workers, businesses,
 will examine transit-oriented Planning builds on the past. While fact, as of mid-January it was deemed nonprofit organizations, service
 development (TOD) near Metro’s ᘩ Articulating a vision and action Burien’s neighborhoods are always the rainiest January on record since providers, and other key stakeholders increase in median sales price 3
 H-Line RapidRide investments. strategies to meet community changing, planning efforts should 1894. At this time of year, those of us that helped guide the plan.
 and citywide goals for walkable acknowledge the unique history of with housing can be grateful for the
 Boulevard Park: Planning efforts business districts that feature
 will consider a thriving mixed-use different housing types, successful
 each area. Read more about Burien’s refuge our homes offer against Pacific The Burien Housing Action Plan will 2nd highest home prices
 history on page 18. Northwest winters. provide information and strategies in South King County subregion,
 business district surrounded by businesses, public spaces, after Renton
 for city staff to use while updating our
 residential neighborhoods. environmental sustainability, While a home provides the most basic plans and zoning regulations with
 cultural expression, and need of shelter, it does so much more. the goal of avoiding displacement and
 Community planning—or subarea 1,000 units
 planning—follows the Washington
 community health.
 Get Involved Our homes are places where families increasing housing options for all of of affordable housing exist for households
 are nurtured. They offer respite from Burien’s residents.
 State Growth Management Act, ᘩ Evaluating local regulations to earning less than 60% AMI
 the world outside and reflect our
 regional planning policies, and encourage community-supported
 creativity, interests, and style. They
 Burien’s Comprehensive Plan. The developments in residential,
 Comprehensive Plan identifies areas mixed-use, and commercial zones WEBSITE provide a place to host gatherings of 3,435 new units
 where growth is anticipated and in each neighborhood. burienwa.gov/AmbaumBlvdPark
 friends. And more frequently they are
 places of work and education.
 Learn more of housing will be
 needed by 2040
 directs public and private investment
 to support growing areas. ᘩ Recommending new policies
 Finding a place to call home has 1
 from 2010-2019
 for land use and zoning, and EMAIL become more difficult for just about WEBSITE 2, 3
 from 2013-2020
 prioritizing actions that serve
 everyone. This is especially true for
 community goals, for consideration planning@burienwa.gov economically challenged households. burienwa.gov/HousingAction
 by the Burien Planning Commission SOURCES:
 The challenge of finding a home is Burien South King County Sub-Regional
 and City Council in early 2022.
 partially due to not enough housing
 Heard of the "Toonerville being built to keep up with population EMAIL
 Housing Action Plan Framework 2020
 ᘩ Applying a racial and social
 Trolley" or the "Wednesday equity lens to all neighborhood
 growth. When there is an inadequate
 housingaction@burienwa.gov
 Puget Sound Regional Council's
 2040 Projections
 Social Club"? planning efforts.
 supply of homes, prices increase.

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 Community Explores also tackling police reform. We are
 monitoring county, state, and federal
 What Public Safety legislative processes and working
 Could Look Like in Burien with our legislators to ensure Burien’s
 needs are heard.
 In response to national and local calls
 for a re-examination of policing and City staff are planning another round
 city budgets, the Burien City Council of community engagement, with an
 called a special meeting in September emphasis on making it easier for
 2020 to discuss public safety with people who have not traditionally
 the Burien community. More than 50 participated in these types of
 people attended the virtual meeting conversations to join in.
 and 141 responded to a survey that was
 Rebuilt Peter Western Bridge Keeps Burien Moving
 Would you like to stay informed of
 deployed soon after the meeting. Read future opportunities to participate?
 the full report on public feedback at Email communications@burienwa.gov
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 What’s next? By Emily Inlow-Hood, “Opening the bridge is a positive end to bridge was installed, permanent
 The King County Council and King MORE ONLINE Communications Officer what’s been a challenging year,” says stormwater facilities were repaired,
 County Sheriff’s Office are in the middle Brian J. Wilson, Burien city manager. and the streambed and adjoining
 of a complex process to re-organize and The Peter Western Bridge at the 2200 ravine side slopes were restored.
 respond to the voter-approved King block of S 116th Street (between Burien was awarded emergency
 County Charter Amendments. Military Rd and 24th Ave S) reopened funding to demolish and remove It’s estimated that more than 10,000
 on December 21, 2020, just in time for the existing structure, construct a vehicles travel across the bridge daily.
 The Washington State Legislature and the new year. replacement bridge, repair damaged
 the new federal administration are stormwater facilities in the ravine, “The bridge is a vital connector
 It replaces an older bridge, first and restore the eroded streambed. between north Burien and other
 opened in 1950, that had to be closed commuter highways,” explained
 because of severe erosion occurring The project occurred in two phases. Jimmy Matta, Burien Mayor. “The re-
 below the bridge after several weeks During Phase 1, the damaged bridge opening of Peter Western Bridge will
 of wet weather in 2017. The erosion was demolished and removed, keep Burien moving.”
 had completely undermined two and stormwater facilities and the
 bridge columns and a third column streambed underneath the bridge A virtual celebration will be held later
 was only partially supported. were temporarily stabilized. During this year to celebrate the opening of
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 Moving Burien Developing virtual recreation programs make it easier for businesses to follow
 Honoring with Gratitude:
 Forward Together
 and events to support physical and public health guidelines.

 Acknowledging Traditional Lands
 mental well-being. Sharing information about grant and loan
 Maintaining parks for healthy opportunities, state industry guidelines,
 By Emily Inlow-Hood, Communications Officer outdoor recreation. reopening strategies, how to access to

 of Coast Salish Peoples
 free personal protective equipment, and
 It’s been a long and difficult year, but Sharing resources and information connections to partner organizations for
 the City of Burien has been working hard through our website, social media, and support and guidance.
 email newsletters.
 to help our community make it through Supporting shop local marketing efforts,
 the pandemic, guide Burien businesses Advocating for policies and funding including the creation of the online Burien
 to reopen safely, and secure the right that can help our most vulnerable restaurant directory, “Burien Eat Streets”.
 resources to support local recovery. community members.
 Advocating for Burien businesses with
 By Emily Inlow-Hood, Communications Officer Recognizing the “unique Salish peoples had seasonal villages
 Continuing to provide essential King County and the State of Washington and enduring” relationship and people from around the Salish
 We're helping Burien neighbors government services using safe public Sea would come to trade and harvest.
 make it through by: health standards.
 for resources and inclusion on recovery For decades, Washington state between Indigenous peoples
 planning efforts. What is now called the “Indian
 Delivering almost $1 million to nonprofit
 communities, including Burien, and their traditional territories Trail” (also known as the "Moonlight
 Creating new communications channels
 We're supporting our local led by mostly non-Native
 organizations supporting community to disseminate timely information to
 American leaders, have ignored A land acknowledgment is a “formal Trail") was once an important route
 members who are seeking help paying for businesses by: our businesses including: Economic statement that recognizes the unique connecting Three Tree Point to other
 rent, utilities, food, childcare, and other Development E-Newsletter, Facebook, and the historical and current
 Offering the City of Burien Small Business and enduring relationship that exists villages and camps. The Treaty of
 essential needs. Relief and Recovery Grant Program. 169 Instagram channels. presence of Indigenous people
 in their communities. To help between Indigenous Peoples and Point Elliott guaranteed hunting
 Supporting the statewide eviction moratorium. businesses received $5,000 grants totaling Collaborating with community groups to
 $845,000 in funding to help mitigate heal this past trauma, many their traditional territories.” (Laurier and fishing rights and reservations
 organize the 2020 “It’s a Wonderful Burien”
 Passing a law requiring grocery stores economic impacts of the pandemic. event series to encourage more local local governments, businesses, Students’ Public Interest Research to tribes represented by the Native
 provide hazard pay to their workers during Group, Ontario, Canada). Land signers, but promises and rights
 the pandemic. Adjusting permit requirements for shopping and dining. and educational institutions are
 outdoor dining and waiving permit fees making intentional efforts to acknowledgments are not a new guaranteed by the treaty were not
 Partnering with Discover Burien to provide
 Installing public restrooms and wash stations for restaurants. practice but are a traditional custom fulfilled for the Duwamish.
 for people experiencing homelessness.
 more opportunities for microenterprise acknowledge Native American
 Deferring B&O tax payments for 90 days development via the Burien Winter Market presence and rights to the land on that dates back centuries for many
 Participating in Co-LEAD, a program to in Town Square Park. Native communities and nations. Today, Burien and the Highline area
 during the first two quarters of 2020 to which they reside by developing
 connect people experiencing homelessness offer flexibility to businesses managing “For non-Indigenous communities, is a gathering place for Indigenous
 to safe shelter in hotels. Native land acknowledgments.
 their finances during this crisis. land acknowledgement is a powerful peoples from across the globe. People
 Partnering with the Highline School District to Delaying implementation of the plastic burienwa.gov/covid The Burien City Council is way of showing respect and honoring representing more than 100 different
 pay for free internet access for students in need. bag ban and compostables ordinance to the Indigenous Peoples of the Native tribes, corporations, villages,
 working with the Duwamish and
 Muckleshoot Tribes to develop a land on which we work and live. and other Indigenous communities live,
 Native land acknowledgment for Acknowledgement is a simple way of work, and go to school in the Highline
 area. Many people are members
 Safe and Healthy Housing: will be required to correct any Tenants have the right to ask for repairs Burien that will be read aloud resisting the erasure of Indigenous
 of multiple tribes or claim multi-
 before all public meetings, as well histories and working towards
 Protecting Burien’s Renters substandard housing conditions. and landlords have a duty to keep their
 properties habitable. as be placed in prominent locations honoring and inviting the truth.” ethnic ancestry. Burien’s Indigenous
 Rental housing inspection programs on City of Burien buildings and Source: duwamishtribe.org/land-acknowledgement communities are complex and diverse.
 By Emily Inlow-Hood, Communications Officer “This winter’s unusually wet weather
 like the one in Burien are a helpful
 tool in keeping rental properties
 meant a lot of people were dealing with other public spaces. Where can I learn more?
 Two years ago, just before Christmas,
 maintained, lessening the need for
 leaking roofs and flooding,” said Lori Indigenous peoples in Burien:
 the Burien City Council Chambers was
 tenants to demand repairs to their
 Fleming, rental housing inspection A land acknowledgment is an past and present The Highline Heritage Museum has
 packed with residents from Fox Cove program coordinator for the City opportunity for Burien to recognize
 housing unit. information about local Indigenous
 Apartments, pleading for help. The of Burien. “It underscores why this the unique relationship of the The incorporated city of Burien history and has plans to expand that
 owner of the apartment complex had program is so necessary. As our housing Coast Salish peoples to the place encompasses the ancestral lands and area of their collection. You can also
 made the decision to sell the property Aging housing leads to uptick stock gets older, we want to emphasize
 we all now live, in a way that waters of Coast Salish peoples. Burien
 and had given the tenants less than a how it important it is to keep properties learn more directly from the Duwamish
 in complaints empowers and commits us to future is a significant historical area for
 month’s notice to leave. maintained so everyone can have Longhouse and Cultural Center and
 Sixty-seven percent of Burien’s housing decent housing.” collaboration and action. both the Duwamish and Muckleshoot Muckleshoot Indian Tribe, who are the
 The community rallied behind the units were built before 1970. Many of tribes. Three Tree Point is where Coast best narrators of their own history.
 residents, and immediate relief and aid the multifamily housing complexes Ensuring safe and healthy
 was found, but it uncovered an uglier
 truth. Burien’s current tenant laws did
 have systemic structural problems or housing for everyone
 are suffering the effects from years of
 not go far enough to protect renters at deferred maintenance. The program launched on January 1,
 other properties from facing a similar 2021 and all Burien landlords have
 situation. It also revealed that Burien Edmund Witter of the King County Bar been given notice about the new
 desperately needed to do more to prevent Association's Housing Justice Project, program’s requirements.

 COVID-19 Resources
 buildings from falling into disrepair, a nonprofit that provides free legal aid
 creating unsafe and unhealthy housing for those facing eviction, says their “We structured the inspection program
 for our lowest income neighbors. group has seen an unusually high to be a simple process for landlords,”
 number of complaints from Burien. said Fleming. “We hope the program
 After an intensive community Some of those complaints are related to provides an incentive for them to keep
 engagement process, Council passed repairs not being completed, but there their properties maintained.”
 a suite of renter housing policies,
 including the creation of a rental
 have also been calls about landlords Find COVID-19 updates and resources for community
 attempting to get around the current Apartments, duplexes, triplexes, and four-
 housing inspection program. Burien moratorium on evictions. plexes will be required to conduct a health and businesses at burienwa.gov/covid.
 joins five other Puget Sound cities and safety inspection on at least 20 percent
 in the establishment of a proactive “Last year we helped more than
 of the property’s rental units every three
 inspection program that would
 require property managers to submit
 50 clients in Burien,” said Harry
 Higgins of Housing Justice Project.
 years. Burien has been divided into three Access general resource and referral services from
 rental housing inspection zones. Zone
 proof to the City of Burien that their “Common issues that we see include rat
 1 (NW), north of SW 152nd St and east Crisis Connections by calling or texting 2-1-1.
 units meet basic health and safety infestations, no locks on doors, broken
 of 1st Ave S, is the first area required to
 criteria. If issues are found, landlords windows, leaks, and mold.”
 participate in the program.

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 Finding Hope in Neighbors Helping Neighbors:
 we can't do if we work together in

 St. Vincent
 collaboration and partnership. Together
 we are stronger—Southside Strong.”

 Steve Daschle

 de Paul
 Southwest Youth and
 Family Services
 “Although none of us know exactly what
 2021 will hold, we are hopeful for the
 year ahead and remain committed to
 continuing our work to serve youth and
 families with the critical services they
 need to thrive.
 By Emily Inlow-Hood, Communications Officer
 We are extremely thankful to our
 community of supporters for partnering The mission of St. Vincent de Paul of Seattle
 with us to create meaningful change in and King County (SVdP) is to assist and
 our community. Now more than ever, we advocate for individuals and families so
 We’ve been through a profoundly difficult we are stronger together. We're proud of need to come together as a community to they can meet their basic needs and achieve
 time, but there are glimmers of hope on how our community has come together to support each other.” stability and self-sufficiency. They do this
 the horizon. We revisited some of the support one another. As an organization, through a strong volunteer network, aided
 by a team of trained staff case managers,
 organizations and people that we spoke
 with last fall to see what is giving them
 our staff and volunteers have delivered
 over 5,000 Safe Start Kits to help keep
 Susan Enfield who follow a model that asks them to listen,
 hope for this year. employees and customers safe. We have Highline Public Schools engage, and build relationships with the
 conducted over 1,600 technical assistance people they are trying to help.
 “We have seen how resilient and
 Roxana Pardo Garcia appointments to help our small businesses
 access millions in cash assistance and resourceful our staff, students and families “Our goal is to walk with the community.
 Alimentando al Pueblo saved hundreds of local jobs. We continue are in the face of a global crisis. That gives Neighbors helping neighbors—we never
 to advocate for additional support, safe us great hope, because we know that deviate from that mission,” said Mirya
 "Alimentando al Pueblo started as an idea reopening, and provide marketing together, we can tackle any challenge that Muñoz-Roach, Executive Director of SVdP.
 and is now its own Community within support through our active promotional lies ahead. We have learned not to let the
 Burien (and the greater Highline Service belief that “we can’t possibly do that” stop SVdP operates a helpline that connects
 campaigns such as Keep Calm and Carry
 area). Our volunteers and Community us from making our school system truly people to this network of volunteers, called
 Out and the Southside Promise, and the
 know each other by name, they share equitable, so that all children can realize Vincentians. In Burien, these efforts are
 Southside Strong Fund. There is nothing
 stories, laughter, recipes, and joy. Not the full promise of public education.” organized into two groups, the St. Francis
 only did we provide culturally relevant and St. Bernadette Conferences. The
 food to our Community, but we also gifted Centro Rendu program operates culturally
 culturally relevant art, music, books, appropriate programs and services for
 headphones to our students, and diapers. Latinx individuals and families.
 The greater Community has shown our
 project an incredible amount of love and A helpful neighbor is just a
 support—we are excited to continue in our phone call away
 work of building the world that so many of
 us deserve." Community members who need assistance
 can call SVdP’s Helpline (206-767-6449).
 Sarah Brusig Trained staff and volunteers will answer
 the phone and listen to what the individual
 Discover Burien needs, then connect them with a local
 volunteer group.
 “It is always darkest before the dawn and
 we are no doubt pulling through a very
 Before the pandemic, SVdP would send
 dark time in our city’s history. However,
 out two volunteers to the person’s home to

 Your well-being is our well-being.
 there is hope to be experienced soon
 assess the need and establish trust. Instead
 with additional doses and an incoming
 of making people wait in line, or referring
 distribution schedule for the vaccine.
 them to a phone number, “we try to meet
 We look forward to welcoming new
 people on their own turf,” says Hannah
 businesses to Burien and the re-opening
 of long-term entities. One step at a time— Call today to learn about our special offer!* Hunthausen, Senior Manager, Mission
 Renewal and Community Engagement.
 we will all pull through this moment
 “Our volunteers do their best to make each
 together and emerge stronger.”
 neighbor feel seen, heard, and at ease. They
 are intentional about being present and
 Andrea Reay B U R I E N
 nonjudgmental as they listen to people’s
 Seattle Southside Chamber stories and the challenges they are facing.”
 of Commerce This approach is how they are able to
 (206) 829-4165 • merrillgardens.com uncover needs that the individual may
 “Since 1988, the Seattle Southside Chamber not be willing to reveal initially over the
 has been dedicated to creating a vibrant 15020 5th Ave SW, Burien, WA 98166 Lic #ALF 2406
 *Call for details. phone. For example, an older adult may
 region by advocating, building awareness, need utility assistance, but they also may be
 and providing support for business. One lonely and need to talk. Or, a volunteer team
 thing that has remained constant over the Independent Living • Assisted Living • Memory Care could be helping a family who needs rent
 years we've served our community is that assistance, but when the volunteers arrive

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 See Something, Say Something
 By Chief Theodore Boe, Burien Police Department Your police officers are working very hard
 to keep your community safe and they
 In late December, a community member greatly appreciate your equal care in your
 ᘩ Park your vehicle inside a garage or
 was walking past an apartment parking community, including reporting suspicious
 in a well-lit area.
 garage in the middle of the night and circumstances. These calls help direct your
 heard the sound of a power tool. Instead officers to “hot spots” and greatly increase
 ᘩ Install a catalytic converter
 of just ignoring it and walking on, they their effectiveness and efficiency. As
 protection device.
 took a moment to call 9-1-1 and pass on the your police department, we would rather
 information. Officers quickly responded check on your suspicions and have it be ᘩ Work with neighbors to establish
 and caught a young man in the act of nothing than have someone tell us they saw or maintain a Neighborhood Block
 at their home, they find that the family “We believe that anyone can learn,” says February 1, 2021 (253-299-4245, option 4) sawing a catalytic converter off a car. something but didn’t report it while we Watch group.
 may not have enough furniture. They then Muñoz-Roach. “We meet them where they through funding from King County’s Best are investigating the crime after it occurs.
 discover that the mom is underemployed. are and help them from that point forward." The reason I tell this stor y is to
 Starts for Kids program. 53,000 sets of eyes looking out for our ᘩ Report all suspicious or criminal
 That’s when they can start connecting remind people that if you see or hear community is better than six. activity by calling 9-1-1 immediately.
 that individual to help finding a job or Now that the Deferred Action for Childhood While the pandemic may have caused them something, say something. You know
 furthering their education. Arrivals (DACA) program is accepting to either temporarily pause programs, or your neighborhood better than us Tips for keeping your car safe ᘩ Install motion sensing lights in
 applications again, Centro Rendu has seen a adapt their programs to public health safety and are more likely to see something
 During the pandemic, those in-person visits surge in interest in their education programs, restrictions, SVdP never stopped responding that appears out of place. A strange
 from catalytic converter thieves your driveway.
 have turned into phone visits or home visits especially those that focus on helping people to people who called upon them. SVdP began car, the lights being on or off at a A catalytic converter is a small metal ᘩ Etch your car's VIN number
 where they meet outside and keep six feet earn their high school diploma. Their early serving our county 100 years ago in the midst neighbor’s house or hearing unusual part of the exhaust system on your car. or license plate number on the
 apart. But the mission remains the same. learning programs are also popular. of another global pandemic and they know noises can all be nothing … or a sign It contains expensive metals which converter to make it easier to identify
 how to adapt and respond to needs as they of something amiss. attracts thieves. a ring of thieves in the future.
 “We don’t call the people we’re helping Centro Rendu partners with civil legal arise in our communities. Needs continues
 clients. We call them neighbors,” says aid organizations and immigration to grow, with some people facing more
 Hunthausen. “Our volunteers and attorneys to ensure families have access to than $20,000 in debt. SVdP staff is working
 case managers provide compassionate representation when needed and provide with partners, such as the King County Bar
 accompaniment, and support people in Know Your Rights workshops and clinics. Association’s Housing Justice Project, to
 moving toward stability and self-sufficiency.” They are currently evaluating whether prepare for a potential wave of evictions once
 to bring their Re-Route Youth Program, the eviction moratorium expires.
 Centro Rendu connects Latinx
 which focuses on gang prevention through
 positive mentorship, academic support, and “We listen to our neighbors and respond
 Wildfire smoke
 families to critical support
 Staffed with Spanish speakers, Centro Rendu
 family services, as well as their R3 school
 re-engagement program, to Burien.
 to their needs,” says Muñoz-Roach. “Our
 network of care is a beautiful thing. It is toxic. Protect
 your health.
 builds and heals community.”
 helps individuals and families access critical Staying responsive to new and expanding
 educational opportunities, legal services, needs like social service agencies across the
 Seeking more neighbors to join
 leadership development, and bullying
 prevention programs. They offer culturally
 region, SVdP has seen a sharp increase in need.
 their “network of care” Accepting New Patients
 High levels of unemployment and reduced
 specific case management services to meet a work hours have hit those in the hospitality for a Unique Dental CHECK OUTDOOR
 SVdP is set to receive $15,000 for their
 family’s basic needs and help them achieve and service industries particularly hard.
 Experience AIR QUALITY AT
 stability and self-sufficiency. rental and utility assistance programs,
 and $12,000 for the Centro Rendu program
 “We are receiving calls from people who
 through the 2021–2022 allocation of the PSCLEANAIR.ORG
 “We have a helpline, but because we have have never before had to ask for help with
 Burien Human Services Fund. We offer a full line of
 become such a trusted program, a lot of rent, food, or utilities,” says Hunthausen.
 people find us by word of mouth,” says Cosmetic treatments
 The organization relies on volunteers to do
 Roberto Perez, Program Manager. “When SVdP typically receives approximately
 their work and are always seeking more along with Sedation
 you call, there will be someone here 40,000 calls per year to their Helpline.
 who wants to get to know you and walk The need for rental assistance has become people to join their “network of care.” Dentistry and General
 Anyone can be a volunteer. Other ways for
 alongside with you. We care not just for the especially acute in the last year, with Dental care.
 individual, but for the family as a whole.” immigrant and BIPOC communities
 disproportionately impacted. In Burien, 36
 people to support their work is to shop at
 their store on 1st Ave S. Eighty-nine cents Questions
 They offer a variety of free adult of every dollar goes back to supporting No Insurance? Ask about
 about COVID
 percent of the callers were Latinx.
 educational opportunities including basic programs. Financial donations are also
 education classes in Spanish, classes for SVdP was selected by King County to help important to support their work. our office Wellness Plan.
 English language learners, high school disburse federal aid in the form of rent,
 vaccine?
 206-248-1339
 completion programs, and computer and utility, and other cash assistance. Last Go to svdpseattle.org/get-involved to learn
 financial literacy classes. Their Back 2 year, they helped over 700 families in south more about ways to get involved.
 Work program helps Latinx adults secure King County get access to rental assistance
 adult basic education, work readiness through a rental lottery program. Editor’s Note: This is a story in our
 training, and other services to help them continuing series highlighting organizations 1800 SW 152nd Street, Suite 201
 secure employment. A new Spanish language early childhood that receive funding from the City of Burien
 Burien, WA 98166 CovidVaccineWA.org
 resource and referral line launched Human Services Fund.
 www.kennerdentalgroup.com
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 where we are today. We’ve highlighted and farms in the Sunnydale area. Many of
 some interesting tidbits about each them returned after the war and reopened
 neighborhood for our print issue, but greenhouses and nurseries. Mike and
 there’s much more to see online! Named after real estate promoter Linden
 Jane Kelly are considered this area’s first
 I. Gregory, this area was formerly known
 settlers. Mike Kelly famously said after
 The names and boundaries on this as “Wobbly Hill” or “Poverty Hill”. As
 stepping out of the woods into a mossy
 map reflect both historic and current the land was cleared of trees, Seattle
 clearing, “This is truly a sunny dale.”
 Southern concepts of Burien neighborhoods. workers building wooden ships for
 However, neighborhoods change over World War I became its first residents.
 Highline High School opened here
 Heights time and these boundaries are not set Many of these workers, who lived in
 in 1924, built by a coalition of seven
 in stone. Instead, we invite you to look small shacks, were members of the
 small school districts. The façade of
 International Workers of the World labor
 Shorewood
 at this map as a starting point for a the replacement high school, now
 community conversation about who we union and were known as “Wobblies”.
 under construction, incorporates some
 are as a whole community. elements of the historic building.
 Salmon Beverly This map will be updated as we uncover
 Three Tree Point
 Creek Park Boulevard more details, history, and cool facts about
 each neighborhood. Do you have ideas for
 Park different types of information you would
 you like to see on this map? Do you have
 Once advertised to affluent residents
 of Seattle and Tacoma as a remote
 Inglesea something to contribute? Please contact
 us at communications@burienwa.gov. We
 summer getaway, this neighborhood
 was intended from the start to be a
 Evansville want to hear from you!
 community for people with higher
 incomes. Early property owners accessed
 We want to give special thanks to Susan
 the area by steamboat, then walked up
 Coles of the City of Burien, the Highline
 the hill on the "Indian Trail" (otherwise
 Heritage Museum and their volunteer
 known as the Moonlight Trail) until a
 historians, and historian David M.
 Buerge for contributing information to Downtown road was constructed. This trail was

 Chelsea Highline this story.
 previously used by Coast Salish peoples
 to connect inland villages and camps.

 Park The Olde Burien and Sunnydale
 neighborhoods competed to become
 Coast Salish peoples have a myth
 that explains that the creation of
 Seahurst the economic center of the area, but it
 was the initiation of service of the Lake
 Three Tree Point is the result of a
 Manhattan Burien Railroad that opened up access
 great catastrophe. The story goes

 Downtown Sunnydale
 that a woman, fleeing her husband
 and gave Olde Burien the commercial
 down the beach from Poverty Bay,
 edge. In 1912, service began on the
 saw her parents departing in a
 Annexed to Burien in 1998, this primarily Lake Burien Railroad, affectionately
 loaded catamaran (two canoes lashed
 residential neighborhood is home to named by residents “The Toonerville
 together with poles). Crying out for
 the Washington State Criminal Justice Trolley” or “The Galloping Goose.” The
 rescue, she collapsed exhausted as
 Lake
 By Susan McLain, Community Training Center. The Highline Area Food main commercial district of downtown
 a great transformation swept over
 Development Director and Emily Bank inhabits the former Manhattan Burien took off after World War II.
 the world. The "First People" were
 Burien Five Inlow-Hood, Communications Officer Community Hall, which was established
 ild

 subsequently turned to stone. The
 in 1952 to provide a meeting place for the
 wife became tca’kagwǝs (ča’kagwǝs),
 Corners community to gather for group activities,
 lew

 Burien is part of the ancestral home which translates to “Glistening White,”
 social support, public information, and
 of Coast Salish peoples and near a beach boulder at Woodmont Beach
 other purposes. Manhattan School was
 Gregory
 ap

 a crossroads of trade and travel now buried under the parking lot of
 one of the earliest schools in the area.
 the Des Moines Marina. The pursuing
 in the central Puget Sound basin.
 M

 Heights Within Burien, there are landmarks
 husband, dressed in a marmot-skin
 robe characteristic of great hunters,
 that are celebrated in Coast Salish Five Corners became qoiqwi’ltsa (qoiqwi’lca),
 Th r e myths and legends. Generations of derived from sqoiqoi, “Marmot”. The
 e Tre catamaran became Three Tree Point,
 e Po immigrants from across the globe
 t’aleyakW (tʼaleyakw), translated to “two
 int
 Many settlers* came in and established
 have also shaped Burien’s history. canoes lashed together”. Its baggage
 Lake Burien
 homesteads in the Five Corners area.
 Today, our city is a patchwork of 18 The Elsey family built a shake mill on became nearby beach boulders, and
 neighborhood areas, connected by 1st Ave S and 160th St in the 1890s. It three of the poles became trees. A
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 basket of water carried by the family
 t ta

 vital transportation corridors, each remained heavily wooded until 1928
 when Louis Balzarini created his Five The “kettle lakeˮ and its surrounding slave, Crow, became a fatally poisonous
 an integral part of the fabric that forest were once teeming with fish spring, kakaʼ alqo (kʔakʔaʔalqo) “Crow’s
 ha

 Corners Nursery on his homestead. A
 makes up Burien. neighbor added another nursery, and and wildlife, important resources water,” now buried under houses lining
 an

 soon development in the area took off. for Native people and settlers alike. Three Tree Point.
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 Maplewild Highline Salmon Creek
 Jacob Ambaum purchased land where
 The forested hills and ravines of Farmers from this area traveled to
 Maplewild made it unsuitable for Pike Place Market to sell their meat St. Bernadette Catholic Church now
 most homesteads, yet some hearty and produce. stands. In 1916, he created a road for
 souls toughed it out. Years later those use by horse and wagon between his
 homesteads were subdivided, with one property and the curves of Salmon
 Creek on the road that now bears
 Evansville
 property becoming Duffy’s Gardens. On
 land donated by the Three Tree Point his name. He was instrumental to
 Garden Club, the Boy Scouts of America the development of the Lake Burien
 Troop 377 dedicated their new scout Railroad, which used the roadbed he
 lodge, a one-room cabin built by the One of the first shopping centers in the had already built.
 youth, in 1949. The curves and dips of area was the Glendale Shopping Center,
 Maplewild Avenue can be attributed to located at 136th Street and 1st Avenue
 South. It included a dress shop operated Boulevard Park Southern Heights
 early road construction, which followed
 the path of least resistance. by two teachers at White Center Heights Beverly Park
 School. One of the women, Rozella Roff,
 would eventually become the first female This neighborhood is home to the first In 1919, a group of Seattle businessmen
 Beverly Park was settled through
 principal in the Highline School District.
 Seahurst the establishment of farms serving library in the King County Library organized to build the Rainier Golf
 Seattle and evolved into residential System, founded by the Wednesday and Country Club. A few years
 neighborhoods over time. The Social Club (formerly known as the later, members of the Seattle Jewish
 neighborhood, along with Boulevard Women’s Progress Club of McKinley community, excluded from Rainier,
 Development here boomed after Seahurst Hill). In its heyday, Boulevard Park
 Park and Southern Heights, is among the built their own golf course next door,
 became the southern terminus of the Lake had a thriving business district, but
 most culturally diverse neighborhoods now known as Glen Acres Golf and
 Burien Railroad; by 1917 there were six
 in Burien, influenced by more recent expansion of Sea-Tac Airport has Country Club. The early years of The
 real estate offices in the immediate area.
 waves of migration and immigration. severely impacted Boulevard Park. Boeing Company brought an influx of
 In 1947, a 544-unit affordable apartment
 complex for veterans of World War II and professionals who built stately homes in
 their families was built on Ambaum at this neighborhood.
 136th Street. Those apartments are now
 known as Alcove at Seahurst. Seahurst
 was also the location of Gunther’s Tower,
 a 50-foot tower that featured a spiral
 staircase built around a Douglas fir tree.
 This is where prospective buyers could
 Inglesea
 see land surrounding Lake Burien that
 was for sale. During Prohibition, smugglers brought
 their boats into Salmon Creek to supply
 Coast Salish peoples set up camps The Flame and other taverns with
 near the mouths of Salmon Creek and alcohol, the wooded ravine providing
 Miller Creek (in Normandy Park) to ample cover as they worked their way
 take advantage of the summer and fall up the hill. The creek used to teem
 salmon. Beach and river camps were with salmon. School-aged boys sent to
 important summertime places for collect water from the creek sometimes
 saltwater and river groups to meet for waded in to grab a few of the huge fish
 intergroup cooperation and celebration. for their families.

 Chelsea Park Shorewood
 The Chelsea Park Improvement Club was
 Logging of the plateau in the late 19th
 active in the 1940s and 1950s. The club
 century gradually opened this area for *The term “settlers” is used to refer to non-Native people in the area.
 raised money for community projects
 farms that over time were subdivided
 and sponsored dances and other social
 events. In 1947, the area adopted the
 for homes. Construction of Ambaum PHOTO CREDITS:
 Road made the area more accessible to
 slogan, “Where Lilies Grow.” Lily bulbs
 potential homeowners. The Shorewood Photo of Gunther's Tower (page 20) provided courtesy of Highline Heritage Museum.
 were brought in from Oregon growers
 on the Sound Community Club was Photo of Boulevard Park Library (page 21) provided courtesy of King County Library System.
 and sold in the neighborhood.
 established in 1946. Photo of Glendale Golf & Country Club (page 21) courtesy of Glen Acres Golf & Country Club.

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