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Kenai Peninsula Borough staff outline changes to hearings and appeals code; ordinance introduces standing rules and new timelines

2138582 · January 21, 2025
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Summary

Deputy borough attorney presented Ordinance 2025-3 to amend KPB chapter 21.20, clarifying standing for quasi‑judicial appeals, shifting some appeal costs, adjusting briefing timelines and allowing administrative consolidation; public hearing set for Feb. 25, 2025.

The Kenai Peninsula Borough assembly heard a staff presentation on Ordinance 2025-3, an amendment to KPB chapter 21.20 that would revise procedures for hearings and appeals of quasi‑judicial planning decisions.

Walker Steinhage, deputy borough attorney, summarized six primary changes the ordinance would enact: establish criteria for standing to appeal quasi‑judicial decisions; make planning commission the hearing officer for appeals from some planning staff decisions; require appellants to pay…

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