
Stanton Gregor
52:31 - 53:05
"Ordinance 2026-14, an ordinance amending Title 19 Zoning of the Petersburg Municipal Code to regulate wireless communication facilities and other towers and transmitters. This will be the first reading."
“Ordinance 2026-14, an ordinance amending Title 19 Zoning of the Petersburg Municipal Code to regulate wireless communication facilities and other towers and transmitters. This will be the first reading.”
2026-13 Passes unanimously in its first reading. Bring us to Item B of new business, Ordinance 2026-14, an ordinance amending Title 19 Zoning of the Petersburg Municipal Code to regulate wireless communication facilities and other towers and transmitters. This will be the first reading. If approved in 3 readings, this ordinance would establish zoning and permitting standards for wireless communication facilities and other towers, requires these facilities— facilities to be reviewed as conditional uses.
The Petersburg Borough Assembly unanimously passed the first reading of Ordinance 2026-14 on June 15 after cutting the sensitive-area setback from 1,500 feet to 500 feet, a change driven by members' concerns the original draft could violate federal telecommunications law and leave carriers no viable sites.

The Petersburg Borough Assembly voted 6-0 Monday to sell a 0.23-acre borough parcel to the Central Council of the Tlingit and Haida Indian Tribes of Alaska, doing business as Tidal Network, after the same resolution failed 2-4 at the June 1 meeting, with members citing public safety benefits and the site's distance from sensitive areas.
