Planning commission recommends rezoning along Redoubt Avenue to allow denser housing

Planning and Zoning Commission members on Oct. 22 recommended the City of Kenai amend its official zoning map along the Redoubt Avenue corridor to allow denser residential development.

The commission voted 6-0 to forward resolution PZ2025-29 to the Kenai City Council, recommending rezoning seven private lots and one city-owned tract to urban residential and two additional tracts to suburban residential. Director Buettner told the commission the request was intended to "allow higher density residential development that mirrors current development patterns and to eliminate duplicative conditional use permits along the corridor."

Staff said the proposed zoning would align the map with the Imagine Kenai 2030 comprehensive plan’s land-use intentions for the corridor and would make multifamily and senior or low-income housing projects administratively simpler where utilities are present or planned. The application was submitted by the Kenai…