Speaker B
15:01 - 15:57
"it's because of the community desire to choose and recommend certain sites to wireless communication companies, um, so as to limit surprise and have some sort of public input in the locations, um, and kind of ease that process."
“it's because of the community desire to choose and recommend certain sites to wireless communication companies, um, so as to limit surprise and have some sort of public input in the locations, um, and kind of ease that process.”
- Speaker
- Speaker B
- Timestamp
- 15:01 – 15:57
- Community
- Alaska News
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- May 12, 2026
From the transcript
And then you need to create what's actually going to be allowed in that overlay, um, and then justification for why this ordinance is needed, blah, blah, blah. Okay, so basically using that MIO ordinance as a template I think you could take out what's in there and rewrite it for this. And can that be hashed out here at this meeting today? Like, just if you want to, let's check some stuff off the list. Um, I think the reason for the overlay, um, we— it's because of the community desire to choose and recommend certain sites to wireless communication companies, um, so as to limit surprise and have some sort of public input in the locations, um, and kind of ease that process.
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