Kodiak weighs selling four parcels, including its ballfields

Two well-used Kodiak baseball fields are among the borough properties that could eventually go up for sale.

The Kodiak Island Borough Lands Committee meets July 20 to weigh whether four borough-owned parcels should be steered toward disposal — and the one likeliest to draw attention is Killarney Hills, a 16-acre site on East Rezanof Drive that holds two ballfields shared with the City of Kodiak and the school district.

Selling that land runs straight into the recreation question. "Any disposal of this parcel would need to consider impacts to existing recreation uses," Community Development Director Chris French wrote in a staff memo. Four buildable lots there have already stalled once, pulled from an earlier borough sale when sewer connections couldn't be resolved, and a short sewer extension remains the obstacle. A 2015 survey also flagged about 2.6 acres of possible wetlands.

The other three parcels carry their own baggage. A Sharatin Road lot zoned for public use drew more than 40 comments in opposition when the borough tried to rezone it for housing in 2017. A small East Rezanof lot is split by the city-borough boundary and has never been considered for sale. And a 35-acre parcel on Monashka Bay Road has no platted road access, sewer, or water.

Whatever the committee recommends, nothing sells without a later vote by the Assembly.