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Kenai Peninsula Borough approves $2.1 million purchase of four Homer parcels to protect hospital slope
Summary
The Kenai Peninsula Borough Assembly approved purchase of four properties in Homer for $2.1 million, citing slope stabilization behind South Peninsula Hospital as the primary purpose; public testimony raised landslide and future-development concerns.
The Kenai Peninsula Borough Assembly voted on Aug. 5 to authorize the acquisition of four properties in Homer for a total of $2,100,000 to be paid from the South Peninsula Hospital plant replacement fund.
Assembly members and the mayor said the primary purpose of the purchase is to protect the hospital from slope instability behind its building. Mayor Michicky told the assembly: “We're purchasing it to keep someone else from destabilizing.”
The purchase drew public comment from Homer resident and geologist Charles Barnwell, who said one parcel (parcel ID 17504022) sits on a steep bluff directly behind the hospital and appears in state…
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