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Commission approves temporary housing barge for cruise-line staff with conditions including ADEC permit and insurance
Summary
The Planning and Zoning Commission approved Conditional Use Permit 2025005 on Feb. 13, 2025, allowing a cruise-line housing barge to locate in a leased area of the Port of Skagway, conditioned on state environmental permitting, insurance, indemnity and an emergency-access plan.
The Skagway Planning and Zoning Commission approved Conditional Use Permit application 2025005 on Feb. 13, 2025, allowing cruise-line agencies to place a housing barge in a leased area of the Port of Skagway, subject to conditions the municipal administration requested.
Manager Deetsch, speaking for municipal administration, told the commission the municipality has not previously applied code and port tariff rules to a housing barge and asked for specific conditions if the permit is approved. Requested conditions the commission adopted on the record included: temporary habitation limited to April 1–Oct. 31 each year if the barge does not meet winter insulation standards; an approved Alaska Department of Environmental Conservation (ADEC) discharge permit specific to the proposed…
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