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Brian O'Shaughnessy

19:37 - 20:03

“we anticipate there's an average of around 2.5 folks per dwelling. We have around 2,000 residences in the area, so that would come out to around 5,000 folks.”
Speaker
Brian O'Shaughnessy
Community
Alaska News
Location
Juneau
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From the transcript

So based on our occupancy, our occupancy data from the most recent census, we anticipate there's an average of around 2.5 folks per dwelling. We have around 2,000 residences in the area, so that would come out to around 5,000 folks. And that's a total guess, again, based on census occupancy data.

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