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Assembly lands committee reviews easement to provide legal access for proposed Grama Branch subdivision
Summary
The Kenai Peninsula Borough Assembly Lands Committee discussed Resolution 2025-033, which would authorize the borough to accept a public access easement off Easton Road to provide legal access to a proposed Grama Branch subdivision. Planning staff said the landowner agreed to grant the easement; no formal vote was taken at the committee meeting.
The Kenai Peninsula Borough Assembly Lands Committee met at 4:30 p.m. to consider Resolution 2025-033, a measure that would authorize the borough to accept a public access easement to provide legal access to the proposed Grama Branch subdivision off Easton Road.
Robert Rucker, director of the planning department, told the committee the parcel had been “stranded” without legal access and borough staff worked with the landowner and the borough legal team to secure an easement. “This particular easement, off Easton Road is … one of those ones that we've been working on for quite a while to figure out how to make a legal subdivision in it,” Rucker said. He added that the landowner agreed to grant the easement and staff concluded the document “does meet our needs” provided it is recorded through the legislative process.
Committee members asked whether the planning commission or an advisory board had reviewed the matter. Assembly member Cox said he saw a unanimous advisory-board recommendation in the packet and asked whether it also went to the planning commission. Rucker said he did not recall substantive discussion at the planning commission. The item was introduced as eligible for the consent agenda under new business; no committee vote was recorded at the meeting.
The committee did not take formal action on the resolution during the lands committee meeting; the item remained positioned for the borough’s legislative process and potential placement on the consent agenda for the full assembly.
Background: The resolution was presented to address legal access for a subdivision described in committee materials as the Grama Branch subdivision and is described by staff as securing recorded easement rights across an existing, privately used access route. The committee packet identifies an advisory or planning recommendation; a member later clarified that an advisory body for the Kachemak Bay area has been inactive for several years and cited planning commission materials for recommendations in that area.
The lands committee adjourned at 4:40 p.m. without a committee-level vote on Resolution 2025-033.
