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Chelsea Bailey

74:05 - 75:01

"The addition of the 7-foot buffer and an 8-foot multi-use path paired with a 2-to-1 drainage ditch and back slope requires a significant right-of-way acquisition and will have a disproportionate impact to our property."

The addition of the 7-foot buffer and an 8-foot multi-use path paired with a 2-to-1 drainage ditch and back slope requires a significant right-of-way acquisition and will have a disproportionate impact to our property.
Speaker
Chelsea Bailey
Community
Alaska News
Location
Anchorage
Captured at
August 11, 2026

From the transcript

While we appreciate them taking that meeting, uh, we did walk away feeling concerned that nothing was going to change with the current design, and that's why we're here before you tonight, uh, to once again raise our concerns, uh, and ask, uh, for your help. So the 65% design before you applies the typical design section throughout the entire project without any sort of structural mitigations or design alternatives for the local topography and the steep adjacent lots. The addition of the 7-foot buffer and an 8-foot multi-use path paired with a 2-to-1 drainage ditch and back slope requires a significant right-of-way acquisition and will have a disproportionate impact to our property. Mount Air Drive is planned to become a rural collector, and as the staff analysis notes, the local topography varies from 10 to 30%. Under the context-sensitive solutions, which we understand Title 21 as well as the Hillside District plan call for.