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Planning board reads findings that vacation would create substandard right-of-way; vacation denied
Summary
The Matanuska-Susitna Borough planning board read findings concluding a proposed right-of-way vacation would create a substandard roadway and noted objections from the predesign and engineering division; the board closed the case without approving the vacation.
The Matanuska-Susitna Borough planning board read findings into the record concluding that a proposed vacation of a public right-of-way would result in a substandard right-of-way and therefore warranted denial.
The facts read by a planning staff member cited the 2022 Subdivision Construction Manual, section A7.1, and Mat-Su Borough Title 43 provisions (as read into the record) explaining the planning board generally will not approve vacations when objections are filed by persons with an interest in adjacent land or by government agencies with responsibility to the public. The predesign and engineering division formally objected to the vacation of the right-of-way, the staff reader said.
The planning staff member read the findings and then closed the case; no motion to approve the vacation was made. The board confirmed the objection from predesign and engineering and proceeded to the next agenda item.
The action was procedural: staff read findings of denial into the record, citing the subdivision manual and borough code provisions, and the board closed the hearing on the vacation without approval.
