Jeff Brasel
253:11 - 253:43
“I think that 2620 was a big win for the city tonight, and I want to thank Council Member Johansen for drafting pretty much the entirety of that. All I did was modify it a little bit into being temporary and try to work on the language some. Um, but that gives us an opportunity to get our renewed planning and zoning folks on track with plenty of time to make that happen, and, and I think we're gonna come out the other side of that in better shape than had we, you know, gone the original direction.”
- Speaker
- Jeff Brasel
- Timestamp
- 253:11 – 253:43
- Community
- Alaska News
- Captured at
- October 8, 2026
From the transcript
One of the benefits of being the Deputy Mayor is you go, you go towards the end and everybody beats you to everything. So, you know, I won't, I won't repeat over and over again. But, um, I, I think that 2620 was a big win for the city tonight, and I want to thank Council Member Johansen for drafting pretty much the entirety of that. All I did was modify it a little bit into being temporary and try to work on the language some. Um, but that gives us an opportunity to get our renewed planning and zoning folks on track with plenty of time to make that happen, and, and I think we're gonna come out the other side of that in better shape than had we, you know, gone the original direction.
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