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Juneau residents urge Assembly to delay Telephone Hill demolition, cite $9M cost and no developer
Summary
Multiple Juneau residents urged the City and Borough of Juneau Assembly on Aug. 18 to delay or rescind plans to remove homes and evict tenants from Telephone Hill, arguing the city has not secured a developer or a credible plan and that demolition funding would displace residents and carry a high cost.
Multiple Juneau residents urged the City and Borough of Juneau Assembly on Aug. 18 to delay or rescind plans to remove homes and evict tenants from Telephone Hill, arguing the city has not secured a developer or a credible plan to convert the site into affordable housing and that the preliminary price tag would be a poor use of local funds.
"I urge the assembly to consider the political consequences of wasting $9,000,000 siphoned from other needed Juneau projects only to leave Juneau with another empty property," said Joshua Adams, a member of Friends of Telephone Hill, in public testimony. Adams warned that current housing-market uncertainty could make the site harder to sell as raw land once homes are demolished.
Why it matters: speakers said the proposed demolition and October eviction date (testifiers cited Oct. 1, 2025 in…
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