Kenai Peninsula Borough committee reviews ordinance to create Kina Wellness Estates local-option C-3 zone; no vote recorded

The Kenai Peninsula Borough Lands Committee discussed Ordinance 2024-33, which would amend KPB 21.46.070 to create the Kina Wellness Estates addition local-option only mixed-use C-3 district and grant an exception to the code's 12-contiguous-lot minimum. Planning Director Robert Ruffner told the committee the item is a conversion of an existing local-option zone and that the borough was not a party to an outside arbitration that produced a smaller-area threshold.

"This particular area has a local option zone in it, so this is a conversion," Robert Ruffner, planning director for the Kenai Peninsula Borough, said in presenting the item. Ruffner said the local-option program allows neighbors to sign petitions asking for zoning restrictions or changes in their subdivision and that this proposal would convert an…