Fairbanks borough staff recommends recognizing decades-long outside storage use at 3590 Dale Road

On June 5, Fairbanks North Star Borough staff recommended that the borough recognize legal nonconforming status—commonly called "grandfather rights"—for outside storage on a Light Commercial–zoned parcel at 3590 Dale Road in Fairbanks, following an administrative hearing on the application by Wade Binkley.

The recommendation came during the borough's administrative hearing when Ms. McElroy, planning staff, told the hearing the property, addressed as Tax Lot 2308 in Section 23, Township 1 South, Range 2 West, is 86,248.8 square feet and has a long history of industrial boat-yard, maintenance, storage and backup passenger-boat landing uses. "The staff recommendation is because the outside storage as a principal use was established before the adoption of ordinance number 2024-46 on 01/09/2025," Ms. McElroy said.

The n…