Erin Baldwin Day

Anchorage overlay developers would pay full cost of water and sewer extensions, AWWU says

Anchorage developers still build parking without a mandate, planners say

“And what we're seeing from the developments that have happened is that that's fundamentally false. It's not actually happening.”

Anchorage fire chief expects two recruit academies in 2027 as about 50 can retire

“we really do have a lot of folks who are set to retire in the coming year, and that is, that is going to create some additional complexities for you all”

Anchorage budget office lists pool closures and bus cuts as possible options for 2028 gap

“I mean, it's 1.8 million, and I think there's a calculus to be done there about what does that mean in terms of economic value?”

Willow Commons stays full in its first six months, health department says

“Do we know what that, what that looks like as far as utilities, security, snow removal?”

East 56 shelter will reach 200 beds by Nov. 30, a month earlier than last year

Anchorage's water utility could own the rights to most of the city's tap water in 2055

Anchorage Assembly amends proposed police surveillance rules, then runs out of time

Downtown business leaders ask Anchorage Assembly to make police foot patrol permanent

Anchorage Assembly to consider study of building rules in high-hazard earthquake zones

“is a policy decision that should not be undertaken without careful study by municipal staff, community experts, and emergency management professionals”

Anchorage officials propose asking voters to fund an ambulance and its crew

“1.35-ish million to staff the thing we just asked you if you wanted to buy”

Anchorage Assembly approves Tozier Tract land swap with nonbinding housing targets

Anchorage Assembly postpones missing middle housing vote to Nov. 4

Anchorage Assembly to hear proposal capping city department staffing Tuesday

Anchorage ordinance would raise transit-corridor density target from 8 to 36 homes per acre

“The updated map better reflects the intent of the ordinance to enable the development of creative multifamily housing that the average resident can afford to build, buy, or rent.”

Anchorage mayor proposes 2027 budget that relies on one-time money, warns of 2028 fiscal cliff

“about two-thirds of our needs are being funded by property tax, and we have double the infrastructure at this point to be able to maintain”

January count finds downtown Anchorage street parking peaked at about a third full

“illustrate whether we actually have parking challenges in Anchorage, and if so, where”

Montessori school's September repairs top yearly budget as child care fund grants face cuts

Anchorage schools model a $9 million budget gap for fiscal 2028

Anchorage officials fail to agree on shared school-closure committee

Anchorage schedules Oct. 6 hearing on transit-corridor plan

“This is what our plans say should have been happening all along.”

Anchorage service-area debate exposes unanswered questions about taxes and emergency coverage

“So there are some people who have a premium subscription to the Municipality of Anchorage and they're they're not paying for it, is what I'm hearing.”

Anchorage housing overlay hearing carries to Oct. 6 after divided testimony

Anchorage police launch phased pre-arrest deflection pilot Sept. 23

Anchorage named a day for Dolly Parton three weeks after her death

Anchorage wants 10,000 homes. Its zoning fight is over where they can fit.

“trying to walk that line between what is the minimum, minimum effective dose, as it were, of zoning reform versus what kinds of changes are acceptable to our neighbors”

Anchorage keeps funding a $5 million median barrier on 5th Avenue

“Building a $5 million wall down the middle of 5th Avenue is not justifiable and the data does not support it.”

An ordinance would tighten oversight of Anchorage's staffing overruns

“standalone but very much connected to the, the budget of the municipality and are under the purview of the Anchorage Assembly”

Anchorage wants city land sales weighed by housing, not price alone

Anchorage Assembly takes up next year's budget priorities

“The muni is doing a lot more with less dollars at this point.”

Anchorage could shrink its minimum lot size by two-thirds under a pending ordinance

Some Anchorage homes went a month without running water last winter

Anchorage Assembly keeps a non-binding housing resolution moving

Planners urged cutting the overlay's R-1 height break. The sponsors kept it.

Anchorage will weigh housing density, not just price, when it sells land

Fifteen Anchorage Assembly members will have their spending accounts examined in a 9-2 vote

“the public does not trust us when we say that we have our house in order”

Anchorage Assembly weighs $305,000 more for South Goldenview road repairs

“They're only responsible for paying for the maintenance on their little strip of road.”

Anchorage weighs $470,000 no-bid sale of Government Hill lot

“we don't have our own prioritized list of the types of housing that we want to be sure municipal land actually produces”

Anchorage weighs a fiscal summit as property taxes carry the city

“And about two-thirds of our needs are being funded by property tax, and we have double the infrastructure at this point to be able to maintain.”

Anchorage Assembly to vote Sept. 1 on two $4 million AWWU on-call repair contracts

“We have a lot of legacy infrastructure that we have built roads and pipes, um, things that are not indefinite resources”

Anchorage weighs selling city land for housing by units built, not just the highest bid

“The goal is more housing at more price points for more people, for more of our neighbors.”

The Anchorage Assembly may audit every member's spending

Anchorage permits more housing than last year, but from a near-record low

“And I'd like to posit that that trajectory does not get us to 10,000 homes in 10 years.”

Eagle River lot could shed 2002 limits at a Sept. 15 hearing

“special limitations in our zoning designations are notoriously challenging and create really so much confusion about what can and can't be built on a property”

Anchorage keeps blowing past overtime budgets stuck on a 2010 baseline

Three Hillside road districts are dipping into savings as maintenance costs outrun their funding

“road service areas are places where people pay really only for the road maintenance in their area”

Anchorage picks up the tab for building repairs the state used to help fund

“State and federal funding has shifted significantly over the last decade, and as a result of that, we are shouldering more of the burden for our capital needs”

Anchorage union deals would sweeten benefits amid a labor shortage

“we are competing with the private sector for employment”

A Hillside road district taps its own savings to fix its own roads

“They're only responsible for paying for the maintenance on their little strip of road.”

Anchorage weighs $1 million for nonprofits feeding and sheltering vulnerable residents

“I'm curious how much that base grant funding has decreased.”