Erin Baldwin Day
27:51 - 28:40
“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 has been a really tricky thing. And I think that's, that's why we've landed where we've landed.”
- Speaker
- Erin Baldwin Day
- Timestamp
- 27:51 – 28:40
- Community
- Alaska News
- Location
- Anchorage
- Captured at
- June 17, 2026
From the transcript
And so there's this delicate balance to be struck between what actually gets us the, the critical mass of intervention that produces more housing in these places where we've said it would go, and also what our, what Anchorage is ready to receive as a change. And ultimately, change management is extremely difficult. And a lot of folks, for very, very valid reasons, have concerns about what kinds of structures might land in their neighborhood. And so 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 has been a really tricky thing. And I think that's, that's why we've landed where we've landed.
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