11:49 - 12:28
"back in the '90s and maybe before, when I was a younger engineer developers did come forward looking to develop this property and found it problematic in its layout and perhaps the zoning too, which wasn't something I was concerned too much about. But running the water, sewer, and roads was a difficulty, and it just never happened. So it's been sitting here all this time. So now we've got a developer that's going to have some skin in the game."
“back in the '90s and maybe before, when I was a younger engineer developers did come forward looking to develop this property and found it problematic in its layout and perhaps the zoning too, which wasn't something I was concerned too much about. But running the water, sewer, and roads was a difficulty, and it just never happened. So it's been sitting here all this time. So now we've got a developer that's going to have some skin in the game.”
- Timestamp
- 11:49 – 12:28
- Community
- Alaska News
- Location
- Kenai
- Captured at
- July 8, 2026
From the transcript
I'd like to, like to say that I, uh, I, uh, do support this ordinance. And, uh, back in the '90s and maybe before, when I was a younger engineer developers did come forward looking to develop this property and found it problematic in its layout and perhaps the zoning too, which wasn't something I was concerned too much about. But running the water, sewer, and roads was a difficulty, and it just never happened. So it's been sitting here all this time. So now we've got a developer that's going to have some skin in the game.
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