Speaker B
23:44 - 24:43
"the main one that was important to them was there's a creek that they used to drink well water from. They don't anymore, but it's a good drinking water creek that gets muddied up with construction. Um, and so they are hoping to preserve that as much as possible and not include the rock pits in the overlay."
“the main one that was important to them was there's a creek that they used to drink well water from. They don't anymore, but it's a good drinking water creek that gets muddied up with construction. Um, and so they are hoping to preserve that as much as possible and not include the rock pits in the overlay.”
- Speaker
- Speaker B
- Timestamp
- 23:44 – 24:43
- Community
- Alaska News
- Location
- Petersburg
- Captured at
- June 9, 2026
From the transcript
So they support it not being a by-right use, and they would— they were requesting that the Scout Bay portion of the proposed overlay be removed. Um, which, um, and the reason that they had, um, they had a few reasons, but also the main one that was important to them was there's a creek that they used to drink well water from. They don't anymore, but it's a good drinking water creek that gets muddied up with construction. Um, and so they are hoping to preserve that as much as possible and not include the rock pits in the overlay. Um, I appreciate their comments as residents, but I also, um, from our conversation, the— it sounds like the rock pit portions were of maybe limited use, um, to, uh, potential tower companies, that they would have to wait until the rock pit is completely used up before they could put a tower there.
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