Two Anchorage notices for the same Oct. 26 plat decisions list different cases

Two versions of the Municipality of Anchorage's notice for the same Oct. 26 platting decisions are live, and they do not list the same cases. The longer notice lists three. The shorter one lists two and omits case S12921 entirely. That case covers 31.96 acres at 225 and 111 West 100th Avenue, zoned I-2 Heavy Industrial, in the Bayshore-Klatt community council area. It is more than four times the size of the other two cases combined.

Residents who want a say must put it in writing by 5 p.m. Monday, Oct. 19. The notice lists no email address and no online form. Comments go to 4700 Elmore Road in person or by mail to the Planning Department at PO Box 196650, Anchorage 99519-6650. The department's previous short-plat notice, for an Oct. 13 decision, told commenters they could email.

The platting officer will decide the three land divisions on Monday, Oct. 26, without a public hearing. All three are abbreviated plats, the short-plat procedure for splitting a parcel into eight or fewer lots or moving a lot line. Abbreviated-plat notice requires publication and community-council notice, but not mailed notice to neighboring residents or a sign on the property. So nobody living beside any of these three properties is written to, and no sign goes up on the land.

Two of the three cases ask the officer to keep expiring approvals alive. Jennifer Wilson and Antonio Parameswaran are seeking a first-time extension to merge two lots into one across 5 acres at 4125 Ptarmigan Terrace Avenue in Rabbit Creek. Tasha Branch of Demar Properties and Kendall is seeking a first-time extension to merge two tracts of the Fairweather Subdivision into one. That is the case the shorter notice leaves out.

Only the third case would create a new lot. Ben and Bristyl Bailey are asking to split one 2.5-acre lot at 2730 De Armoun Road into two. Both residential parcels are zoned R-6 Low-Density Residential.

Under Anchorage Municipal Code Title 21, the officer can grant an extension only if conditions remain substantially the same as when the plat was first approved. The officer may also refer a case to the platting board when it needs further analysis or public comment about access to adjacent property, and the decision can itself be appealed to that board. The decision posts Oct. 27.

The Planning Department has not been asked which version governs. Both carry the same Oct. 5 publication date, the same comment deadline, the same phone number and the same mayor's name, Suzanne LaFrance. The shorter version also leaves the petitioner field blank on the first case.