Daniel Byrd
12:44 - 12:58
“the permit, the Army Corps permit only requires that the land use where the property is now can only be marine-related, and the training props aren't marine-related.”
- Speaker
- Daniel Byrd
- Timestamp
- 12:44 – 12:58
- Transcript
- Petersburg Borough: Assembly Meeting
- Community
- Alaska News
- Captured at
- October 21, 2026
From the transcript
And the city has no prior planning to make this happen, so this is just kind of out of the blue. And I asked Steve why this is, and he didn't have an answer for me. He said this was being pushed by the mayor, and he didn't have a reason as to why that was. So I'm hoping I'm going to get an explanation of why this is tonight. I hear comments from other people about the— oh, the permit, the Army Corps permit only requires that the land use where the property is now can only be marine-related, and the training props aren't marine-related.
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