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Board waives petition and approves East Van Horn Road name change and variance
Summary
The planning board on March 19 approved a variance and a formal road naming to change a section of Van Horn Road to East Van Horn Road after emergency operations and the City of Fairbanks engineering and fire officials supported the change to reduce addressing confusion.
The Fairbanks North Star Borough Planning Board approved both a variance (BR006-25/VR006) and a public road naming request (NR002-25) on March 19 to rename the portion of Van Horn Road lying between South Cushman Street extension and Easy Street as East Van Horn Road. Both votes were 5-0.
Staff and emergency operations said 10 of the 12 addresses on the segment already used the East Van Horn Road designation informally. Because adding a directional does not always avoid a duplicate name per borough code, the…
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