Kenai residents ask commission to review Aspen Creek conditional-use permit over neighborhood traffic and safety

Residents of the Ponderosa and Pine Avenue neighborhoods urged the City of Kenai Planning and Zoning Commission on Jan. 8 to review a modified conditional‑use permit for Aspen Creek Senior Living, saying the facility’s back access is being used routinely for deliveries, staff parking and other traffic and is endangering children and pedestrians in the narrow, residential streets.

Marshall Scott Moon, a homeowner on Ponderosa Street, told the commission he has lived in Kenai since 1996 and that Aspen Creek “has not been a very good neighbor and is in violation of the terms of its CUP.” He said the permit allowed an easement primarily for emergency access and vendor deliveries but that vehicle traffic “often far exceed[s] the speed limit” and now regularly includes semis with 40‑foot trailers.

Several other residents described similar observations. “There were, out of 21 vehicles…