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Skagway assembly fixes wording in historic-district code but declines to forward ordinance to Planning and Zoning
Summary
The Skagway Civic Affairs committee approved technical clarifications to the historic-district zoning code — including replacing 'borough manager' with 'building official or their designee' and striking a weekend-fallback appeals sentence — but voted not to forward the revised ordinance to Planning and Zoning, leaving sign policy unresolved.
Chair Charity Pomeroy opened discussion of a draft ordinance to amend Title 19 (planning and zoning) that she said was intended to correct ambiguous or unenforceable language in the historic district code. The committee approved a technical amendment to replace references to the 'borough manager' with 'building official or their designee' and voted to remove a sentence that had moved appeal deadlines falling on a weekend to the next working day.
The package was presented as largely procedural fixes intended to make existing enforcement provisions workable after legal review identified circular references and a typographical error. "This has gone to legal twice,"…
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