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Ketchikan resident urges borough to rescind commercial tideland lease and amend code for residential floats
Summary
Longtime resident Mike Holman told the assembly his tideland parcel (ATS 1485) was conveyed with a DNR lease now held by the borough, said he no longer seeks commercial use and asked the borough to draft an ordinance to treat residential, noncommercial floats like other borough properties so a lease is not required.
Mike Holman, a property owner who identified his parcel as Alaska tideland survey ATS 1485, spent nearly half an hour walking the assembly through decades of lease documents and state actions and urged the borough to change its code so residential, noncommercial floats on borough-owned tidelands would not require a DNR-style lease. "I don't want the lease anymore," Holman said, describing that he sought a lease in the early 1990s for a proposed commercial lodge but abandoned the commercial plans years ago.
Holman summarized the documentary record he provided to the assembly, including a state title decision, the 1996 lease documents and correspondence he said show…
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