Tag Archives: Borough Lands Committee

Borough Lands Committee looks at ways to reduce flooding events

Leta Street flooded by the Russian River. (Photo by Andrew Finke) Mitch Borden/KMXT The Kodiak Island Borough Lands Committee met on Wednesday to approve a proposed resolution to the borough assembly. The resolution, if passed, will direct borough staff to look into options for gravel extraction in the Russian River and Sargent Creek. Both waterways have been known to flood …

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Public Gets Say in Borough Lot Disposal

Kayla Desroches/KMXT The public spoke against the sale of two lots of land by Baranof Park at a Kodiak Island Borough Assembly regular meeting in September. The properties were among those that the Borough Lands Committee had identified for sale, zone change, and possible future development. Community members had came forward and identified the lots as ones that should be …

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Borough Lands Committee Strives to Make Land Available to Public

Kayla Desroches/KMXT The issue of reforestation in the burned area of Chiniak will come again before the Kodiak Island Borough Assembly at its regular meeting tonight (THURS). The assembly will review a draft for a contract with Anchorage-based Koncor Forest Products to purchase 300,000 spruce tree seedlings. In the regular meeting packet is a letter to Resource Management Officer Duane …

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Borough Committee Works to Open Up Land to Public

Kayla Desroches/KMXT The Kodiak Island Borough Assembly is slowly advancing towards opening up land in Kodiak. Two items on the agenda of the upcoming Kodiak Island Borough Assembly regular meeting will address land use, and one directly answers the eviction of Jackson Mobile Home Park residents because of the park’s closure and the struggle to find a space for trailers. …

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