Name: Edith McKee: this is the cut line that, that the residents have shared shows the cut line literally going right up to the front of their property. And the DOT process would typically require that you acquire a right-of-way that encompasses your total project footprint, so your cut and fill limits would have to be acquired.
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Description: this is the cut line that, that the residents have shared shows the cut line literally going right up to the front of their property. And the DOT process would typically require that you acquire a right-of-way that encompasses your total project footprint, so your cut and fill limits would have to be acquired.

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Edith McKee

86:34 - 87:29

"this is the cut line that, that the residents have shared shows the cut line literally going right up to the front of their property. And the DOT process would typically require that you acquire a right-of-way that encompasses your total project footprint, so your cut and fill limits would have to be acquired."

“this is the cut line that, that the residents have shared shows the cut line literally going right up to the front of their property. And the DOT process would typically require that you acquire a right-of-way that encompasses your total project footprint, so your cut and fill limits would have to be acquired.”

Speaker: Edith McKee
Timestamp: 86:34 – 87:29
Source: Anchorage Assembly: Planning and Zoning Commission - August 10, 2026 - 2026-08-10 18:30:00
Community: Alaska News
Location: Anchorage
Captured at: August 11, 2026

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You know, I'm looking at your vertical and your horizontal proposed alignments, and you're pretty much matching existing, so there isn't really a lot of opportunity to significantly reduce the, the footprint, and this is the cut line that, that the residents have shared shows the cut line literally going right up to the front of their property. And the DOT process would typically require that you acquire a right-of-way that encompasses your total project footprint, so your cut and fill limits would have to be acquired. With the extent of what's shown here, would this be a full acquisition acquiring relocation of, of these homeowners? Uh, at the moment, we do not plan to fully acquire along the project. Again, this is— we have been looking at this and some other properties to try and tighten up those impacts.

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