Name: Suzanne LaFrance: this amendment before you offers a balanced way forward to move forward with something that the community can get behind. And so what it does is builds on the sponsor's 30-foot limit in R-1 to extend that to R-1A, R-2, R-2A, R-2D. And it also adds the 10-foot minimum setback for these underlying, underlying zones as well.
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Description: this amendment before you offers a balanced way forward to move forward with something that the community can get behind. And so what it does is builds on the sponsor's 30-foot limit in R-1 to extend that to R-1A, R-2, R-2A, R-2D. And it also adds the 10-foot minimum setback for these underlying, underlying zones as well.

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Suzanne LaFrance

63:21 - 63:50

“this amendment before you offers a balanced way forward to move forward with something that the community can get behind. And so what it does is builds on the sponsor's 30-foot limit in R-1 to extend that to R-1A, R-2, R-2A, R-2D. And it also adds the 10-foot minimum setback for these underlying, underlying zones as well.”

Speaker: Suzanne LaFrance
Timestamp: 63:21 – 63:50
Transcript: Anchorage Assembly: Second Worksession re AO 2026-85, amending Anchorage Municipal Code Title 21 to create new...
Community: Alaska News
Location: Anchorage
Captured at: October 28, 2026

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Land swaps open up new opportunities, and I thank the Assembly for your partnership in this area. This amendment— no, well, at first I want to recognize that the original version of MHOP contains compromises. I do want to say that this amendment before you offers a balanced way forward to move forward with something that the community can get behind. And so what it does is builds on the sponsor's 30-foot limit in R-1 to extend that to R-1A, R-2, R-2A, R-2D. And it also adds the 10-foot minimum setback for these underlying, underlying zones as well.

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