Alex Strawn
9:53 - 10:34
“regardless of the size of your lot, You can have your main residence and a mother-in-law suite without any permitting whatsoever.”
- Speaker
- Alex Strawn
- Timestamp
- 9:53 – 10:34
- Community
- Alaska News
- Location
- Matanuska-Susitna Borough
- Captured at
From the transcript
And if you have— there's a lot of, uh, the idea was that you could have on a 1-acre lot, you could have 2 dwelling units without a permit. And we found that if you're just under 1 acre, because maybe you have an older lot, you'd only be able to have 1 unit. And so this sort of fixes that, saying regardless of the size of your lot, You can have your main residence and a mother-in-law suite without any permitting whatsoever. And then this tackles— well, it addresses a big issue that we've been dealing with in the planning department, dealing with condominium, what we call condo plats.
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