Stephanie Nowers
30:18 - 30:31
“this was voted in, and then the assembly decided to try to shrink the amount back to 45, and the voters by 2 to 1 said no, it should be 75 feet setback from the water.”
- Speaker
- Stephanie Nowers
- Timestamp
- 30:18 – 30:31
- Community
- Alaska News
- Location
- Matanuska-Susitna Borough
- Captured at
- October 20, 2026
From the transcript
Thanks, Madam Mayor. Thank you, Assemblyman Gamble, for pulling this together and the folks who did. Appreciate that. And I know we have batted this around a lot, and, uh, you know, there's— there is a lot of history there. Um, this was voted in, and then the assembly decided to try to shrink the amount back to 45, and the voters by 2 to 1 said no, it should be 75 feet setback from the water.
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