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Advisory board recommends stricter lakefront rules, new permit path and fuel‑tank limits for Mat‑Su
Summary
The Water Body Setback Advisory Board recommends keeping a 75‑foot lakefront setback while creating a regulated permit path to build between 45 and 75 feet under engineered controls, along with limits on riparian clearing and requirements for secondary containment of fuel storage near lakes.
The Water Body Setback Advisory Board presented its recommendations to the Matanuska‑Susitna Borough assembly and planning commission on March 11, urging tighter shore‑line protections while carving a regulated permitting path for limited future development.
Board and staff materials propose to keep the borough’s nominal 75‑foot setback in place, bar certain activities within the first 25 feet of shoreline (including wholesale removal of riparian vegetation beyond 50 percent and stockpiling of snow and solid waste), and require a land‑use permit for mechanized clearing within 75 feet of lakes. Under the draft recommendations, property owners could seek engineering review and a land‑use permit to build between 45 and 75 feet, but the board recommended that variances not be allowed for proposals that would place structures within 45 feet of a water body.
The board’s recommendations also address fuel storage and hazardous liquids: the draft would require secondary containment for liquid hazardous substances within 75…
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