Bob Dole
31:05 - 31:59
"That cost them hundreds of— actually, thousands of dollars and a 3-month delay in construction. That's why we are going forward to address where— to give the Director the authority to just deal with these de minimis variances rather than tie up the cost, the delay, the risk of missing a building season"
“That cost them hundreds of— actually, thousands of dollars and a 3-month delay in construction. That's why we are going forward to address where— to give the Director the authority to just deal with these de minimis variances rather than tie up the cost, the delay, the risk of missing a building season”
- Speaker
- Bob Dole
- Timestamp
- 31:05 – 31:59
- Community
- Alaska News
- Location
- Anchorage
- Captured at
- August 28, 2026
From the transcript
That cost them hundreds of— actually, thousands of dollars and a 3-month delay in construction. That's why we are going forward to address where— to give the Director the authority to just deal with these de minimis variances rather than tie up the cost, the delay, the risk of missing a building season and also working more on our volunteers who volunteer— your local citizens on the Planning and Zoning Commission, Planning Board and ZBEA. Ah, now we are here. Also, we have to make sure that we're working on our code and processes to go forward, not to hold things in place. Recently, we updated our building code, and when we did that, we brought in 100 folks from the industry to say, "What makes sense so this doesn't become a speed bump but rather supports development?" And what they did this time was they were inclusive.
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