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Erin Baldwin Day

12:14 - 12:41

“for decades now, we have had this instruction, this aspirational language in our land use plans that say we should have more types of housing buildable in these areas. And we have never made the leap from plan to implementation.”
Community
Alaska News
Location
Anchorage
Captured at
June 17, 2026

From the transcript

And so for decades now, we have had this instruction, this aspirational language in our land use plans that say we should have more types of housing buildable in these areas. And we have never made the leap from plan to implementation. Mandy, would you go forward one slide? So, at a very high level, Our land use map and our land use plan together are the comprehensive plan. Or yes, I think I said that correctly.

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