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Planning commission recommends Marine Industrial Overlay for Skow Bay, limits vote to Skow Bay portion
Summary
The Petersburg Borough Planning Commission voted to recommend that the borough assembly add a Marine Industrial Overlay (Title 19, Section 19.50) to protect waterfront-dependent uses and amended the recommendation to apply only to the Skow Bay portion; the amendment passed 5-1.
The Petersburg Borough Planning Commission voted to recommend that the borough assembly amend Title 19 by adding Section 19.50, a Marine Industrial Overlay District aimed at protecting waterfront-dependent industrial uses in the port dock area and Skow Bay. Commissioners amended the motion to limit the recommendation to the Skow Bay portion; that amendment passed on a 5-1 roll call.
The recommendation — put forward during a public hearing on a zoning overlay for the Port Dock and Scout Bay turnaround area — is intended to reserve waterfront borough lands for uses that directly support a maritime economy, including commercial fishing and marine service businesses. “We just were awarded $8,800,000 for Skow Bay. It can now pay for the entire first leg of that project out there,” Gloria Ann Wallen, harbor master, told the commission during public testimony. Wallen said the borough previously received $4.1 million in an earlier session and that, combined, the awards total…
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