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Joint Ketchikan committee directs staff to study restrooms near 24 Creek Street
Summary
The joint Cooperative Relations Committee asked borough and city staff to analyze costs and timelines for a permanent restroom near 24 Creek Street and to produce a comparison with a nearby Stedman Street site; the directive passed unanimously after members voiced frustration about long-standing lack of downtown facilities.
The Joint Cooperative Relations Committee of the Ketchikan Gateway Borough and the City of Ketchikan voted at its noon meeting to ask borough and city staff to study the cost and timeline to develop a public restroom at the site near 24 Creek Street, and to include a nearby Stedman Street location for comparison.
The committee’s action responds to long-running complaints from residents and downtown businesses about a shortage of public restrooms in the Creek Street/downtown core, a problem raised during public comment and throughout the staff presentation. "This is to talk about bathrooms and considering infrastructure in a downtown that solely relies on tourism," public commenter Hamilton Gellhar said, criticizing the pace of local action.
City assistant public works director Amanda Robinson presented preliminary site work and identified four city-owned properties in the downtown core as viable…
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