Nathaniel Charbonneau
73:31 - 74:10
"I feel that this section here allows contractors to build a substandard home that is essentially a dry cabin, yet charge premium in-town prices. So somebody in town buying a home expecting utilities now has to live in a dry cabin and move water to their home."
“I feel that this section here allows contractors to build a substandard home that is essentially a dry cabin, yet charge premium in-town prices. So somebody in town buying a home expecting utilities now has to live in a dry cabin and move water to their home.”
- Speaker
- Nathaniel Charbonneau
- Timestamp
- 73:31 – 74:10
- Community
- Alaska News
- Location
- Seward
- Captured at
- September 1, 2026
From the transcript
And I feel that this section here allows contractors to build a substandard home that is essentially a dry cabin, yet charge premium in-town prices. So somebody in town buying a home expecting utilities now has to live in a dry cabin and move water to their home. And we don't have a public— technically, we don't have a public system to move, or a private system to move water to the home. I just I think that it opens up too many areas of confusion, and I don't think we need to go down that road. There's just— there's no way to get water to these.
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