Alex Strawn
13:52 - 14:54
"this creates a new definition for, uh, what's called a vehicular circulation road, and it has a standard that all the exterior walls of your buildings have to be within 100 feet of your of your external or your vehicle circulation road."
“this creates a new definition for, uh, what's called a vehicular circulation road, and it has a standard that all the exterior walls of your buildings have to be within 100 feet of your of your external or your vehicle circulation road.”
- Speaker
- Alex Strawn
- Timestamp
- 13:52 – 14:54
- Community
- Alaska News
- Location
- Matanuska-Susitna Borough
- Captured at
- June 15, 2026
From the transcript
And No, it does, it does. The standards were derived from the Subdivision Construction Manual rules. It also, it has, it sort of strengthens the rules as it pertains to fire code. So if you have a larger parcel, okay, so when we process multifamily permits, it's We have rules that say that all of your internal roads need to match our subdivision construction manual, and it's really hard to determine, okay, what is considered an internal circulation road and what is just a driveway leading to somebody's little cabin? And so this creates a new definition for, uh, what's called a vehicular circulation road, and it has a standard that all the exterior walls of your buildings have to be within 100 feet of your of your external or your vehicle circulation road.
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