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Commission approves parking-variance for KIC-assisted living and navigation center at 2334 Tongass Avenue
Summary
The planning commission approved a major-variance allowing assisted living and service-office uses at 2334 Tongass Avenue to proceed without providing 8 of the 19 required parking spaces, subject to a written cost-estimate condition to support a finding that adding parking would raise project costs by more than 10%.
Ketchikan — The Ketchikan Gateway Borough Planning Commission approved a major-variance request allowing an assisted-living complex and associated service-office (navigation center) to proceed at 2334 Tongass Avenue without providing 8 of the 19 ordinarily required off-street parking spaces.
Planning staff told the commission the site has 11 on-site spaces and is constrained by the existing buildings and parcel size. Staff initially recommended postponement because the application lacked sufficient documentation to support one required finding: that a feasible alternative providing the same effect (integrated parking) would raise project costs by more than 10 percent. That showing is necessary under the local standard to justify the…
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