Planning and Zoning Commission - March 12, 2026

0:00I would like to call to order this meeting of the Planning and Zoning Commission on March 12th, 2026. May I get a roll call? Kern. Here. Silva. Here. Morgan. Here. Maybe. Here. Out called. Out called. Here. Gotcha. Thank you. You mean again. Assemblymember Hillis. Here. You have all members present and a quorum is established. Thank you. Moving on to approval of minutes. These minutes are from July 10th. I move to approve the July 10th, 2025 minutes.

1:04Second. Okay. There's a motion and second to approve the minutes. From July 10th, 2025. My discussion. I just wanted to state that reading through that. Thanks to the clerk's office for all eight pages of that. I forgot about some of the things that were on there. So this was covering a replacement of a routine wall easement and a reindeer for public viewing in town. So it was a pretty long meeting there, but it looked good to me. Anything else? Okay. May I get a roll call? Maybe. Yes. Silva. Yes. Out called. Yes. Yes. Yes. Kern. Yes. Morgan. Yes. Five. Yes. Motion passes.

2:06Okay. Moving on to item four, approval of agenda. I move. We approve the agenda. Second. Okay. There's an emotion and second to approve the agenda. Any discussion? I didn't have any adjustments to it. Okay. Roll call. Morgan. Yes. Maybe. Yes. Kern. Yes. Out called. Yes. Silva. Yes. Five. Yes. Motion passes. Okay. Moving on to item five. Thank you. That I'm being dove. εκ perm a patient to other. Thank you. Corporations to statement in contact to Selva. For myself, I had none, Kern. Morgan. No. Okay. Out called.

3:06No. Thank you. Be correspondence. We did not receive any correspondence. any additional drop box or anything, come through email today. Item C, permanent official report, and welcome. Thank you. I just wanna introduce myself, I'm Kristen Perry, and I'm excited to work with you guys. Excited to be here. Thank you. Okay, and then moving on to item D, I'm Assistant President. We do have two items tonight for public carrying. So if you wanna speak on anything other than the items for public carrying, this would be the time to come forward to mic and state your name. Okay, do we have anyone on the phone? Nope. Okay, moving on to item six, unfinished business. We have none, item seven, new business, we have none. Item eight, resolutions, you also have none,

4:07and moving on to item nine, public carrying. Item A, first reading of application number reply, number 20, 26,006, Che Nelson on behalf of property owner, Darryl Alhover, lot 17, track C, USS 3312, plot 85-2. I move we approve the preliminary plot. I have to open public carrying. Oh, excuse me. Thank you. So at this time, we will open public carrying and invite the applicant first just to come up and introduce their application and state their name at the mic or on the phone. And we will then invite the applicant back up for questions. Would you like to represent? Would you like to represent as property owner? Okay, yeah, if you just wanted to stay a little bit about your application and what it's for,

5:08that would be good for the record here. Yep, there's a blue button or a teal button, just push that. Okay, and Darryl Alhover and Che Nelson is the applicant and we are wanting to subdivide the piece of property that I own on lot C, track 17, DA road. We're both in favor of it, so hopefully that's all we need. Yep. Thank you. Okay, and then moving on to public carrying, do we have anyone sign up here? It looks like for this application? No? Okay, so we had no one, no one written. Wendy, did you mean that for you meant to sign up for the other one? Okay. All right, those are like, okay, one and two. All right, thank you. Okay, with that side, actually at this time too, I'll just read about you up as a property owner. This just gives us an opportunity to ask questions

6:10about your application. Yep. It would give the commission an opportunity to ask you questions if you had anything I'm going to record. Okay, nope, that's a lot too. Okay, is there anything from the permitting official on this? All right, ECS public hearing ever. A public hearing is now closed. We will move on to consideration. I move, we approve the preliminary prep for application number 2026-006, finding that the application complies with the requirements of SMC title 20. Okay, second. There's a motion and a second to approve the preliminary application for this

7:11replat of, replat application number 2026-006, lot 17, track C, discussion. Okay, let me pull my application here. I wanted to note that this is in the residential conservation zone. And my review of it, it looked like the minimum lot size requirement would be maintained of 6,000 square feet looking at the copies there. And one second here, while I navigate to opening up my computer.

8:14Chen. I was trying to verify the access to both properties. Let me look at that again. Okay. Um. I'll just point a clarification. Can I ask the property owner to come up and answer questions? You're going to the public hearings close. Can you come up to the mic just so I can ask a few questions? Yep. Thanks. Okay. Yeah. No, it's just a just to go on the record here. So we'll look you at it and looking at this division. I see that they're well to size. So they will both be maintained more than 6,000 square feet for the lots total space.

9:19I'm having a difficult time understanding what you're saying. When you when you replat this into two lots, they will maintain their size of 6,000 square feet a piece. Oh, yes. Yeah, but beyond that. Okay. It should still be really close to all probably acre and a half on one and just under two on the other. Yep. Okay. That's what I was seeing there. And I can see the one existing structure, but it doesn't look like that would affect anything with setbacks or easements needed. How is the water and sewer for the existing property? Or where for the lot before it's divided? Okay. The north half that Jay will be getting has a well. 225 feet deep. And the septic system was engineered by Gary Hayden. I believe is his name from June.

10:20Okay. So. It was all put into his specification. Okay. And then could you just describe how the access will be to. How it is for the existing, but then when it is divided, how the access to like the will have. It's access to the street and right away. Access off the day road is the driveway that will mostly be on my portion of property. But he and I have no problem with that. And it will divide at the line. The new property line. And that driveway has been since 2001, I believe. And I had a permit from the state of Alaska to.

11:22Approach or. Leave the day road. So. Commissioners, is there anyone else that has questions? The applicant before I can let him sit down for the rest of the meeting. Is there anything from the phones Morgan or alcohol. There's commissioner Morgan. I have no questions for the property owner. Okay. Anything from the table. All right. I'll think things are coming back up for the third time there. Okay. And just to remind everyone this is. The first reading. So this will come back up for a second reading as well. I didn't have any questions other than that. Just wanted to go on the record. Okay. Seeing no further.

12:24Discussion. I'm. May I get a roll call? Outcall. Yes. Kern. Yes. Silva. Yes. Morgan. Yes. Maybe. Yes. Five. Yes. Motion passes. Thank you. Okay. Moving on to public hearing. Item B. Conditional use permit application number 2026, 011. Fairway rentals. Box 78. Lot. For a. In the residential general zone request to construct an accessory housing structure. At this time, I will now open up the public hearing and like to invite the applicant. To present their application.

13:33Hi, everyone. State Fairbanks. Member of fairway rental cell. We own the property for a lot for a. It's on the last street. It's 7,500 square feet. We are proposing to build a small accessory housing structure for 180 square feet. Just want to make a few clarifications here. In my plot plan drawing the site plan. Just clarify that the deck of the new accessory housing structure will be on the inside of the property. So it's not going to be in the setbacks. And then another clarification. One of the pictures show that it's going to have like a small loft with a ship ladder. But no, we're going to the idea is to have a. Engineer.

14:33Roof. So the ceiling will be flat and they won't be a ship ladder inside the dwelling and they won't be this little loft. That you can see one of the pictures. And yeah, if you have any questions, please let me know. Thank you. And it's normally for the applicant. Do I reinvite them up for questions and continue with public hearing or is it matter the order of operations there? Okay, that's just the way it was written out. So I wasn't sure. Okay. Yeah, let me look at the drawings here a little bit more. Thanks for your patience. We'll just keep you up there instead of pulling it back and forth. Okay.

15:42I guess and for the same purpose as to go on the record there to you. Can you just describe the utility connections for this area? This is what the house for utilities water and sewer to be connected to the existing house with a proof permit for access to the housing structure on the same lot. So the idea is to connect the water and sewer line to the existing house. But we don't know for sure like water will be easy to connect. We don't know for sure if the sewer line will be able to. Which work under the existing home we're just not going to do it or other pay the city to just connected to the alley then pay a contractor to dig in the house. So water line will be easy sewer line might not be as easy to connect to the existing home. So if that's the case, we'll just connect to have a new apply for a new connection to the alley.

16:46And then can you describe to you what the parking is for the property as it exists now? Yeah. So I have like on the set plan, I have put the parking just because the property allow for it. But honestly, I have it on the north west corner, but it's 750 square feet. The parking can be on the southwest corner. There's two parking spots that I have this need in my site plan because there's two dwelling units. Sorry, I want to hear it too. And just to kind of look at this to you, it's not for short term rentals. It's more very ongoing. So as far as that goes to develop housing.

18:08Yeah, we have we own another property here in town and with two apartments above commercial space and we have listed around the tenants who lived in the modular home on this property area around residents. So yeah, our goal is to provide the around housing, not short term rentals. And when I say, I don't have the time to be cleaning every day. Okay. Through the commission. Is there any more questions to the applicant? How much space is in between the existing home and the new ADU? I believe it's more than 10 feet. I did not really measure it exactly, but even if it's less, we can do the building called allow for like a dry similar to dry wall material for fire protection. Okay, but I do believe there's 10 feet or more.

19:08Any questions from the phone. It's hard to tell and I can't see you. Now there's this commission Morgan, I have nothing. Thank you. Hi, still have anything. I don't have any further questions. So thank you and we're still under public hearing here too. So we do have one. Meeting members signed up. And Wendy Anderson. Hi, yeah, Wendy Anderson's gagway resident. So on the same block as the proposed new place for the ferry rentals. First of all, I want to say I have great respect for the fair banks as landlords and I do hope that you approve this. I hope they have done a really wonderful job of maintaining and improving the properties that they have and they're the kind of landlords that we need in our community. I'm glad you kept her up here because she answered some of the questions I had.

20:12My biggest concern was parking. There was another property that applied to become a triplex in my community and I didn't come to the meeting thinking that parking would be addressed. I don't know if it's a triplex in my community with no off street parking and all those cars are in the street. So I appreciated that they put the parking spots on their plan and that they would be willing to possibly move those to the south side because the reality of having the parking spot on that north side means that it won't get used. People are going to park where it's convenient. So it's either going to be on the street or they'll be in the alley blocking what is already a narrowed alley. So that is something that I would like to see happen. And I do realize that, you know, that does meet code, but sometimes I think it's important to think of what is the spirit of the code rather than just the letter of the law. What problems are we trying to solve? And that off street parking is a pretty important one, especially considering that states or that mean street is now going to only have one sidewalk when we repay it.

21:21Having clear, better parking spaces is going to really make a difference. So thank you. Thank you. Is there anything from the permitting official? No comment here. Applicant, do you have anything further? Yeah. Right. At this time, I will close the public hearing. I move on to consideration. I move on to the motion. I move for approval of conditional use permit application number 2026 011. By proposed resolution. Excuse me.

22:21Second. I would move to amend the main motion to include the finding of the fast that the requested conditional use will protect the public health safety welfare. Second. And just this is. We don't have any conditions to put on here.

23:29Is there anything from the phones? And I can stop asking you that every time too. Thank you, Rocky. Okay. May I get a roll call? Silver. Yes. Maybe. Yes. Outcall. Yes. Morgan. Yes. Kern. Yes. Five yeses motion passes. I move to amend the main motion to include the finding of the fact that the requested conditional use will not permanently or substantially injure the lawful use of the neighboring properties or uses. Second. Okay.

24:32Okay. There is a motion and a second to amend the main motion with the finding of the fact that the conditional use will not permanently or substantially injure the lawful use of neighboring properties or uses. Discussion. I need to look at the dry answer again, sorry. I guess from the clerk. I don't know. Would it be necessary to put any sort of requirement in there that would allow them to shift the parking spot? Like it wouldn't be a condition though because it wouldn't be a requirement. I just don't know the answer to that. Yeah, I'm not.

25:32I don't know if you can require where on the property. So it's because it wouldn't be a requirement or a condition. It would just be a suggestion, which doesn't need to go into this. Right. I just want to make sure there wasn't something that stopped it from happening. And if that's what they decide to do. Okay. Um. Yeah, utilities already exist. It's not commercial activity. I don't imagine this changing anything in the neighborhood. So I don't have any conditions to put on to this. So anything else from the commission? Hey, may I get a real call? Morgan. Yes. Outcall. Yes. Kern.

26:32Yes. Maybe. Yes. Silva. Yes. Five yeses motion passes. I move to amend the main motion to include the finding of the facts that the requested conditional use will generally be in harmony with the comprehensive plan the coastal management plan and other officially adopted plans. Second. Okay. There's a motion a second to amend the main motion with the finding in fact that conditional use will generally be in harmony with the comprehensive plan coastal management plan and other officially adopted plans discussion. Okay.

27:41Um, I guess fits into our comprehensive plan very well, development of warehousing for Skagway, but I didn't have any conditions on there. Anything from the commission? Okay. We'll call. Maybe. Yes. Silva. Yes. Kern. Yes. Morgan. Yes. Outcall. Yes. Five yeses motion passes. I move to amend the main motion to include the finding of the facts that the requested conditional use will not substantially decrease the value or be out of harmony with property in the neighboring areas. Second. Okay. There's a motion a second to approve. Okay. Okay. Okay. Okay. Okay. Amen. The main motion with the finding of a fact that the requested conditional use will not substantially decrease the value or be out of harmony with property in the neighboring area.

28:42Discussion. Looking at the drawings. I don't see anything. I don't see anything that would be obtuse or change the intended use of the zone or the appearance or effect neighboring properties. Okay. Okay. Is there anything from the phones? I'll just ask on this one again. Just in case I missed you on the last one. Oh. Okay. I have nothing. Thank you. Hey, how are hearing nothing else from the table? I'll take a roll call. Morgan. Yes.

29:42Maybe. Yes. Outcall. Yes. Silva. Yes. Kern. Yes. Five yeses motion passes. Okay. And we are returning to the main motion. So this will be the. Yes. By proposal of the solution, the approval of conditional use permit application number twenty twenty six zero eleven as amended. Roll call. Silva. Yes. Outcall. Yes. Kern. Yes. Morgan. Yes. Maybe. Yes. Five yeses motion passes. Thank you. And then moving on to item ten discussion items. I just wanted to follow up with the commission that I from our work session on the twenty fifth.

30:58And so I just wanted to follow up with the commission that I sent follow up questions on the fourth. To the clear sauce office and then they let me know that on the six that those were forwarded to the city manager, I haven't had a response yet. Did want to state that the questions and make sure I got everything through with that. The commission was asking for clarification whether doctane IBC section three on five. So asking if it could be independently adopted without triggering full cold adoption. I asked for clarification on what three units met in regard to intermodal containers and structures. Just to make sure that we had a clear definition there. I asked about the timeline should be moved to adopt a later version unilaterally of IBC code. To update that from 2006 to a more present version. And then asked them to for input on the statute that I found that made me believe that the adoption of the IBC code would not require the sprinkler systems that started appearing in the 2009 code in residential units for single and duplexes.

32:16So I just put forward clarification for those questions. I haven't heard back yet. But which is asked that we continue to work on figuring out intermodal containers and IBC code because I don't think it's just a one median shot. But hopefully when we get some answers from those that will help redirect everybody. And I just wanted to say if you guys don't see there's the public official filing disclosure is required by March 15th. So after that date, you guys will be fine $10 a day if that is not completed. So please make sure you get logged in to your POFD filing. And that was it for me on discussion or just statements just talking to people. I'm going to ask for the commission here. I move for your turn.

33:18There's a motion second to adjourn may I get a roll call. Out call. Yes. Silva. Yes. Kern. Yes. Maybe. Yes. Morgan. Yes. IBS's motion passes. Thank you. As the meeting is closed until our next meeting on April 9th.