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Commission backs code changes clarifying 'water dependent' and conditional-use rules; debate narrows fence limits and lake exceptions
Summary
The commission recommended the assembly adopt Ordinance 2025-12 to add a definition of "water dependent" and clarify conditional-use permit standards in KPB code; commissioners debated fence rules, seasonal removal for wildlife passage, holding-tank exclusions and whether fences between private properties should be covered.
The Kenai Peninsula Borough Planning Commission on June 9 voted to forward to the assembly a recommendation to adopt Ordinance 2025-12, which proposes amendments to KPB 21.18.081 and KPB 21.18.014 to clarify conditional-use requirements and establish a code definition of “water dependent.”
Robert Ruffner, Planning Director, summarized the ordinance as formalizing a water-dependent definition the commission adopted as a resolution in 2015 and as clarifying standards that had created recurring questions, notably about fences, utilities and the habitat protection district (HPD). He said the draft treats fences adjacent to public property or rights-of-way differently and proposes that the last 20 feet of a fence located within the 50-foot HPD be seasonally removable to facilitate wildlife passage. On…
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