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Planning commission backs code change to appeals and affirms 2015 water-dependent definition
Summary
The commission unanimously recommended adoption of ordinance 2025-3 to amend KPB code on hearings and appeals, adding standing criteria, modifying briefing and consolidation procedures, increasing decision time limits, and directing use of a 2015 planning-commission resolution defining 'water dependent.'
On Jan. 27, 2025, the Kenai Peninsula Borough Planning Commission voted unanimously to forward ordinance 2025-3 to the borough assembly. The ordinance would amend KPB Chapter 21.20 (hearings and appeals to a hearing officer) to add a standalone standing criterion, establish an appeals process from planning staff and the planning director to the commission, allow administrative consolidation of appeals by the borough clerk, require an appellant to pay the transcript fee, change briefing order so the appellant files an initial brief and final reply, permit dismissal of deficient appeals, and extend the hearing…
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