12/15/2024
Sales tax, AKDOT highway project open house, new library branch downtown, new flights to Seward, Fish Creek Fight, aging building stock and infrastructure.
11/24/2024
MOA Assembly passes the 2025 budget, AMATS policy committee removes the Seward highway widening project from the MTP, new big development coming to the Eklutna area.
11/17/2024
Aging infrastructure, special limitations zoning, MOA budget, Fireweed Lane project
11/10/2024
AKDOT’s latest billion dollar boondoggle idea, new 2024 imagery, performance measures for MOA departments, review of the downtown bike lane pilot
10/27/2024
“Something that a lot of people don’t know is that the original location where the Heritage Center was supposed to be built was in Midtown Anchorage in the late 1980s…the location was supposed to be by the Native Hospital where it is today…and there was a campaign that was ran in our local newspaper, ADN, and really the sentiment of that campaign was ‘we don’t want natives in our backyard.’ We had about 50,000 people–50,000 residents in Anchorage–that voted ‘We don’t want the heritage center there…’”
10/20/2024
Preventing future rezones with Special Limitations, more flexibility in B-3, moratorium on residential design standards, AKDOT’s tantrum letter, and more…
10/13/2024
Anchorage has a new planning director, multi-agency road safety report, recreational opportunities in Mountain View, and new development by the Village of Eklutna.