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Planning commission backs ordinance to add homeless shelters to conditional-use rules
Summary
The commission voted to recommend an ordinance amending MSB 17.60 to require conditional-use permits and standards for homeless shelters located outside borough cities, including setback, parking, security and other standards.
The Matanuska-Susitna Borough Planning Commission on May 5 approved Resolution 25-06, recommending that the assembly adopt an ordinance amending MSB 17.60 to add homeless shelters to the borough’s conditional-use permit process for unincorporated areas.
Planning Director Alex Strahan told the commission the ordinance, requested by Assembly Member Sumner, inserts homeless shelters into the borough’s existing conditional-use code (MSB 17.60) and applies…
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