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0:37

Nick Morgan

“with this combination of moderate to heavy rain and these elevated winds, historically speaking, these do meet conditions for possible isolated landslides for those areas that are under the flood watch.”

NWS Juneau: Strong End of Week System | October 15th, 2026 · Oct 15, 2026

0:23

Nick Morgan

“Ketchikan and the Petersburg area seem to be the winner, uh, through the next, you know, 12 hours. We'll likely see, you know, 3 inches according to this guidance, potentially a little bit higher at the elevations”

NWS Juneau: Strong End of Week System | October 15th, 2026 · Oct 15, 2026

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Nick Morgan

“for Prince of Wales, Wrangell, Petersburg, western Cooper Knopf, and Cooey, we're still thinking that, you know, we will see some gusty winds continuing overnight through Friday morning, uh, sustained winds around 20 to 30 miles per hour with some gusts up to 45.”

NWS Juneau: Strong End of Week System | October 15th, 2026 · Oct 15, 2026

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Nick Morgan

“we have upgraded the wind advisories and now have high wind warnings issued for the Annette Island and Ketchikan Gateway Borough area. That is in effect now until Friday at 7 o'clock in the morning. So we're going to see some sustained winds 25 to 35 miles per hour with those southeasterly gusts reaching potentially 60. And like we just talked about, you could see some gusts up to 70, 75 miles per hour at elevations greater than 500 feet.”

NWS Juneau: Strong End of Week System | October 15th, 2026 · Oct 15, 2026

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Nick Morgan

“it's going to be wet, it's going to be windy, and that's going to continue through Friday morning. However, as we get into Friday afternoon into Saturday, we'll start to see some bit of a break potentially. However, we are keeping our eye on another system that could potentially move into the Panhandle by early next week”

NWS Juneau: Strong End of Week System | October 15th, 2026 · Oct 15, 2026

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Nick Morgan

“we have issued a wind advisory for Skagway on the tail end of things. So by 4 AM on Friday, Skagway winds will start to be increasing, and that's going to continue through much of Friday.”

NWS Juneau: Strong End of Week System | October 15th, 2026 · Oct 15, 2026

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Nick Morgan

“we have issued a high wind warning for Ketchikan and Annette Island through Friday morning with wind gusts up 60 miles per hour expected, potentially some wind gusts up to 70, uh, at elevations around 1,000 feet, 500 feet or less. And still messaging the possibility of isolated landslides in the southern Panhandle in that combination of moderate to heavy rainfall and those 40 to 60 mile per hour wind gusts.”

NWS Juneau: Strong End of Week System | October 15th, 2026 · Oct 15, 2026

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Matthew Goddard“There were 2 comments received from the public in response to the notice of public hearing. Bruce and Lisa Rule, property owners to the northeast, submitted comments with concerns about the intersection of Bogart and Engstrom Road.”

Mat-Su Borough: Platting Board Meeting - Oct. 15, 2026 · Oct 15, 2026

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Matthew Goddard“Clayton Childs, a property owner to the southwest, submitted comments with objections to the subdivision due to the condition of Engstrom Road and the traffic congestion at that intersection. After the report was written, there was one comment received from the public with concerns about further subdivision reducing forest cover, timber, and natural appeal.”

Mat-Su Borough: Platting Board Meeting - Oct. 15, 2026 · Oct 15, 2026

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Matthew Goddard“Please show the minimum intersection angle of 70 degrees is met per the 2022 subdivision construction manual. Please note that Engstrom Road is on the official streets and highways plan as a major collector, which requires a minimum right-of-way width of 80 feet per the 2022 SCM Section B-02. PD&E recommends the petitioner voluntarily designate building setback on the plat to allow for future expansion of the road, per B-05. Planning staff notes that the petitioner has since worked with PD&E and has provided updated agenda plat showing the intersection angle and adding the requested building setback information alongside North Angstrom Road.”

Mat-Su Borough: Platting Board Meeting - Oct. 15, 2026 · Oct 15, 2026

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Matthew Goddard“Based on the supplied ADT, the proposed internal street will need to be constructed to borough residential street standards pursuant to the 2022 subdivision Division Construction Manual.”

Mat-Su Borough: Platting Board Meeting - Oct. 15, 2026 · Oct 15, 2026

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Michael (Chair, Platting Board)

“Seeing no objections, motion passes.”

Mat-Su Borough: Platting Board Meeting - Oct. 15, 2026 · Oct 15, 2026

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Matthew Goddard“PD&E will require cross-culvert under the proposed road location to be determined later. Sheet C2.0 shows the available site distance. However, the endpoints of the site distance triangles are not located in the of the approach line.”

Mat-Su Borough: Platting Board Meeting - Oct. 15, 2026 · Oct 15, 2026

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Matthew Goddard“North Lakes Community Council submitted the following comments: the North Lakes Community Council does not oppose the development. The engineering analysis appears thorough and complete. They note that they are concerned about the traffic impacts of all developments on Engstrom Road and request that any platting action adding traffic to Engstrom include a statement detailing the current Engstrom Road capacity, the estimated ADT before the development and after.”

Mat-Su Borough: Platting Board Meeting - Oct. 15, 2026 · Oct 15, 2026

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Matthew Goddard“Staff recommends approval of the proposed Aileron Acres with 7 findings of fact and 7 recommendations of conditions of. Approval.”

Mat-Su Borough: Platting Board Meeting - Oct. 15, 2026 · Oct 15, 2026

1:00

Michael (Chair, Platting Board)

“the request is to create 6 lots from Tract E area on Wolf Lake Phase 2 addition 1, plat number 91-11, to be known as Aileron Acres, containing 8.71 acres plus or minus.”

Mat-Su Borough: Platting Board Meeting - Oct. 15, 2026 · Oct 15, 2026

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Earl Malpass“If you saw that graph there where all the flights to— from Merrill Field to 200 rural communities, remote communities, uh, the impact that we have statewide”

Anchorage Assembly: Energy, Enterprise, & Utilities Oversight Committee-of-the-Whole Committee · Oct 15, 2026

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Craig Sanders

“That defines the runway design code, which is a safety feature that the FAA defines. Based on aircraft characteristics.”

Anchorage Assembly: Energy, Enterprise, & Utilities Oversight Committee-of-the-Whole Committee · Oct 15, 2026

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Earl Malpass“Merrill Field, it's been here since 1930, obviously, and we've had the space for the, the fixed-wing parked aircraft. We're at near capacity right now.”

Anchorage Assembly: Energy, Enterprise, & Utilities Oversight Committee-of-the-Whole Committee · Oct 15, 2026

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Craig Sanders

“We've identified that critical design aircraft as the Beechcraft Super King Air 200, which per the FAA's runway design codes is a B2.”

Anchorage Assembly: Energy, Enterprise, & Utilities Oversight Committee-of-the-Whole Committee · Oct 15, 2026

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Craig Sanders

“it's second behind Ted Stevens in terms of aircraft operations, and, you know, is effectively the second most, and combined, you know, has even more operations than some of these airports combined”

Anchorage Assembly: Energy, Enterprise, & Utilities Oversight Committee-of-the-Whole Committee · Oct 15, 2026

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Craig Sanders

“it's home to 840+ based aircraft. And 30+ businesses and tenants.”

Anchorage Assembly: Energy, Enterprise, & Utilities Oversight Committee-of-the-Whole Committee · Oct 15, 2026

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Anna Brawley“when you mentioned that one piece was below schedule, or below, you meant kind of behind schedule, is that right?”

Anchorage Assembly: Energy, Enterprise, & Utilities Oversight Committee-of-the-Whole Committee · Oct 15, 2026

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Craig Sanders

“the key output for the forecast is the critical design aircraft. And what that is, is the most intensive aircraft using the airport that's on over 500 annual operations.”

Anchorage Assembly: Energy, Enterprise, & Utilities Oversight Committee-of-the-Whole Committee · Oct 15, 2026

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Craig Sanders

“happy to report we have draft chapters of the inventory and forecast available.”

Anchorage Assembly: Energy, Enterprise, & Utilities Oversight Committee-of-the-Whole Committee · Oct 15, 2026

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Craig Sanders

“part of Merrill Field sits on a landfill. And so we are looking at how that impacts future development.”

Anchorage Assembly: Energy, Enterprise, & Utilities Oversight Committee-of-the-Whole Committee · Oct 15, 2026

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Earl Malpass“We're here today to discuss the 20-year Airport Master Plan that's required by the FAA.”

Anchorage Assembly: Energy, Enterprise, & Utilities Oversight Committee-of-the-Whole Committee · Oct 15, 2026

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Craig Sanders

“it helps support air taxi, commuter air service, air ambulance with a connection to Alaska Regional Hospital”

Anchorage Assembly: Energy, Enterprise, & Utilities Oversight Committee-of-the-Whole Committee · Oct 15, 2026

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Ona Brause“I think that's— I mean, that's the service area model, if you will. If there's a service you would like, then you sort of have to pay into the kitty for the service you want. I don't know the legal structure of how that would have to work out because police service area versus the actual downtown district you might be talking about. I don't know if that's within the DID or any— I don't know how we work that out, but that's an option.”

Anchorage Assembly: Budget and Finance Committee-of-the-Whole Meeting · Oct 15, 2026

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Ona Brause“the downtown foot patrol was enabled because of the additional funding from the TIPS appropriation, and it was specifically applied on an overtime basis because we don't have enough sworn officers to do regular, regular time foot patrol. So that's one of the layers of the challenge of how we are sort of patching these needs. There was one-time funding available from TIP specifically to do an enhanced downtown foot patrol, but that additional appropriation doesn't exist in 2027. So we either need to find some other revenue source to fund the OT cost associated with that operation.”

Anchorage Assembly: Budget and Finance Committee-of-the-Whole Meeting · Oct 15, 2026

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Bob Malloy

“the issue that, uh, you know, this would be a precedent for other Airbnbs on our street if, uh, you know, investor buyers buy those properties instead of families.”

Kenai: 2026-10-14 Planning & Zoning Commission Regular Meeting · Oct 14, 2026

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Kevin Buettner“I will bring your concerns up to the city attorney because he will be, um, more privy to, to case law such as that.”

Kenai: 2026-10-14 Planning & Zoning Commission Regular Meeting · Oct 14, 2026

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Christine Schmidt

“the Fowlers are— have a 75-day period they want to have for to be— to have rentals, but that's not in the conditions. And I've testified many times before that when people say that they're going to do something, you should have it as one of their conditions.”

Kenai: 2026-10-14 Planning & Zoning Commission Regular Meeting · Oct 14, 2026

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Christine Schmidt

“the city had denied an application very similar to this one a few years ago. Where a guide business wanted to have lodging in a single-family residence in an exclusively residential subdivision like Woodland.”

Kenai: 2026-10-14 Planning & Zoning Commission Regular Meeting · Oct 14, 2026

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Christine Schmidt

“I hope you'll vote no on this, or at least ask them to take out the part about, um, like where they have put in, um, uh, capital letters.”

Kenai: 2026-10-14 Planning & Zoning Commission Regular Meeting · Oct 14, 2026

0:11

Bob Malloy

“We've been homeowners there for 41 years. We've raised our daughter Lily there and have seen several generations of families raise children here.”

Kenai: 2026-10-14 Planning & Zoning Commission Regular Meeting · Oct 14, 2026

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Kevin Buettner“I would like to voice my opposition to the amendment because we just gave a conditional use permit without such restrictions in it, and I don't think it's fair to these owners to restrict them in a way that we didn't restrict the original, the, the first CUP that we passed.”

Kenai: 2026-10-14 Planning & Zoning Commission Regular Meeting · Oct 14, 2026

0:20

Christine Schmidt

“I just handed to you two pictures showing that support my testimony that last week and this week, the lights were on in every upstairs room at 502 Ash. And the ceiling fans were running for at least 5 straight days, day and night, with no one to— obviously with no one there to turn them off.”

Kenai: 2026-10-14 Planning & Zoning Commission Regular Meeting · Oct 14, 2026

0:49

Stephanie Lanzini-LeBaron

“The Malloy and Schmidt family have routinely been attacking anything that I attempt to do with my property. I was living on property and doing the daycare at the same time, and I would just like it on record that the reason we no longer live in that community was because I felt attacked and unsafe to have my children in that community because of the Malloy-Schmidt family. They are routinely taking pictures of me and my children, the neighborhood children, and it became too uncomfortable even with the 10-foot privacy fence that we had built around the property.”

Kenai: 2026-10-14 Planning & Zoning Commission Regular Meeting · Oct 14, 2026

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Derek Fowler

“I can definitely see, you know, the concern with out-of-state investors buying up properties and doing the similar— a similar thing, because I see what the rentals are these days.”

Kenai: 2026-10-14 Planning & Zoning Commission Regular Meeting · Oct 14, 2026

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Bob Malloy

“There is a, a domino effect of precedent. What happened on Angler Drive with guide, uh, businesses, uh, may happen on Ash Avenue with Airbnbs.”

Kenai: 2026-10-14 Planning & Zoning Commission Regular Meeting · Oct 14, 2026

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Christine Schmidt

“what I've seen the city of Kenai do, except for a few years in the early 2000s, is just basically year after year make less public notice, less transparency, and less public outreach. And this is just another example.”

Kenai: 2026-10-14 Planning & Zoning Commission Regular Meeting · Oct 14, 2026

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Kevin Buettner“The question before the Commission with this action approval is, does this commission— does the commission recommends Kenai City Council enact the ordinance?”

Kenai: 2026-10-14 Planning & Zoning Commission Regular Meeting · Oct 14, 2026

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Bob Malloy

“I do need to say that, uh, that I've never taken any photos of their children. That's a flat-out lie.”

Kenai: 2026-10-14 Planning & Zoning Commission Regular Meeting · Oct 14, 2026

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Kevin Buettner“So if you're walking by, you can snap a picture, but also you have the URL so you can jot it down if you don't have your phone.”

Kenai: 2026-10-14 Planning & Zoning Commission Regular Meeting · Oct 14, 2026

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Shayla Fowler

“We have a large family. We have 7 kids with 2 of us. I do believe that traffic is worse when we are home in the wintertime rather than when there's people coming and staying. We do have very good guests.”

Kenai: 2026-10-14 Planning & Zoning Commission Regular Meeting · Oct 14, 2026

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Kevin Buettner“this, this ordinance as presented to council does not eliminate any of that. So the only thing we took out with this was the publication in the newspaper, um, but make sure that it's published in at least 3 places publicly, um, bulletin board, which we would do anyways right now, and at 2 other public places.”

Kenai: 2026-10-14 Planning & Zoning Commission Regular Meeting · Oct 14, 2026

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Kevin Buettner“Reduce costs. Public funds could be directed towards methods of notification that provide broad and convenient public access while reducing reliance on increasingly costly publication requirements, which have nearly doubled in the past 2 years.”

Kenai: 2026-10-14 Planning & Zoning Commission Regular Meeting · Oct 14, 2026

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