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Stephanie Ryan

“We're in 2026, almost in 2027 at this point, and we need to do less manual work because there's so much work to do. So, and that just leaves room for error and mistakes.”

Anchorage Assembly: Worksession of the Audit Committee Re 2024 ACFR Report ·

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Stephanie Ryan

“In an ideal world, you never touch Equity.”

Anchorage Assembly: Worksession of the Audit Committee Re 2024 ACFR Report ·

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Lance Wilber“this change doesn't only affect what we do in operations in the controller. It can affect other departments, and so we want to make sure that we do this collaboratively so that we're not making a change that might be great for us and maybe not so great for others.”

Anchorage Assembly: Worksession of the Audit Committee Re 2024 ACFR Report ·

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Stephanie Ryan

“I'm glad that I've been here 2 years and we figured this workaround that's not quite as messy. So, kind of going back to the mitigating some of these issues is that we're Fixing it before we give it to BDO, even if it's in an Excel workbook. Not my favorite, but we're working through some things.”

Anchorage Assembly: Worksession of the Audit Committee Re 2024 ACFR Report ·

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Beth Nordlund

“Well, we are your bond promotion team, so when it gets all the way through your body, we will be promoting these park bonds and doing it all year.”

Anchorage Assembly: Worksession re Anchorage Park Foundation Update and Parks and Rec Capital Improvement Plan (CIP) ·

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Anna Brawley“And so certainly I think we'd welcome Park Foundation's thoughts on this project generally, but I just want to also not put them in a position on commenting because the budget has just been published, and I think there's other places we can have that conversation in more detail”

Anchorage Assembly: Worksession re Anchorage Park Foundation Update and Parks and Rec Capital Improvement Plan (CIP) ·

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Janice Park“And we know that ice time is really difficult for the kids to get. So maybe you could address why that hasn't been included, and what they should look for if they, if they wish to, to work on this project.”

Anchorage Assembly: Worksession re Anchorage Park Foundation Update and Parks and Rec Capital Improvement Plan (CIP) ·

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Daniel McKenna-Foster“You may have seen in the news there's been a lot of discussion about this at the Community Economic Development Committee, the HLB Advisory Commission, about a future development on this property, future trade of this property. As I mentioned, right now it's PLI, Public Facilities Lands— Public Lands Institution Zone, and that's pretty limited in the kind of development you can do. So there is interest in some sort of rezone. Our recommendation is that this— we change the land use designation so that they can go through that rezone.”

Anchorage Assembly: Planning and Zoning Commission - September 21, 2026 - 2026-09-21 18:30:00 ·

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Daniel McKenna-Foster“The time to look at sort of access would be— and wetlands would be during permitting.”

Anchorage Assembly: Planning and Zoning Commission - September 21, 2026 - 2026-09-21 18:30:00 ·

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Jeff Raun“My interpretation of that text is those are all physical improvements and uses associated with the physical nature of those elements, not something as transient as a sales activity or a program. Um, in interpreting it in that manner, and the department chair reminding us that these parks have master plans, I'm questioning why are those two elements not addressed in the master plans themselves or other sections of code and not here?”

Anchorage Assembly: Planning and Zoning Commission - September 21, 2026 - 2026-09-21 18:30:00 ·

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Jared Gardner“I actually like that it emphasizes childcare programming as a use available in parks that kind of comes to mind. The temporary sales of products, I feel less that way about, but on the whole, I think I'm maybe would be inclined to oppose it.”

Anchorage Assembly: Planning and Zoning Commission - September 21, 2026 - 2026-09-21 18:30:00 ·

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Andres Spinelli“Does it make sense to have R3 but not R4?”

Anchorage Assembly: Planning and Zoning Commission - September 21, 2026 - 2026-09-21 18:30:00 ·

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Luke Bertram“the Parks and Recreation Department operates a camper park at Centennial Park with 84 sites. So adding this as a conditional use will allow Centennial Park to be rezoned to PR without creating any new nonconformity.”

Anchorage Assembly: Planning and Zoning Commission - September 21, 2026 - 2026-09-21 18:30:00 ·

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Luke Bertram“we decided to remove them because they had use uses there that are not permitted in the PR zoning district. So as a result, we are looking at making a few changes to allow this to happen. So first, we will be looking at making camper parks a conditional use in the PR zoning district, and we will be looking at amending some of the language in the, uh, accessory uses for parks and natural areas to include greenhouse, sale of goods grown on site, and childcare programming.”

Anchorage Assembly: Planning and Zoning Commission - September 21, 2026 - 2026-09-21 18:30:00 ·

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Radhika Krishna“The other cases we've talked about, like child care and seasonal sales, I see them included in the draft, um, Title 21 changes as may include. So I read that as being, um, language that is essentially for guidance ordinance, but is not providing any sort of regulatory limitations on necessarily what can happen in parks.”

Anchorage Assembly: Planning and Zoning Commission - September 21, 2026 - 2026-09-21 18:30:00 ·

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Megan Mills“I move in case 2026-01 0112 to recommend to the Anchorage Assembly approval of an amendment to update the future land use designation of a single parcel in the Anchorage 2040 Land Use Plan to the Town Center designation with transit supportive development as a growth supporting feature.”

Anchorage Assembly: Planning and Zoning Commission - September 21, 2026 - 2026-09-21 18:30:00 ·

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Andres Spinelli“And that was— that motion passes.”

Anchorage Assembly: Planning and Zoning Commission - September 21, 2026 - 2026-09-21 18:30:00 ·

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Luke Bertram“with child care programming, Trailside Discovery Camp uses Kincaid Park and other Anchorage parks for their child care programming. Including this as a listed accessory clarifies that it is permitted in Anchorage parks and creates less friction down the road for any future childcare programming”

Anchorage Assembly: Planning and Zoning Commission - September 21, 2026 - 2026-09-21 18:30:00 ·

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Daniel McKenna-Foster“this is a case of the Tozier Tract future land use redesignation, PCC case 2026-0112.”

Anchorage Assembly: Planning and Zoning Commission - September 21, 2026 - 2026-09-21 18:30:00 ·

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Scott Pulice“I intend to support the motion. I second Commissioner Gardner's comments on the situation and will add that we heard no agency or public opposition to the amendments today.”

Anchorage Assembly: Planning and Zoning Commission - September 21, 2026 - 2026-09-21 18:30:00 ·

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Daniel McKenna-Foster“here in the description of it, we have them listing accessory uses, but then they're not listed in the accessory use table, which is kind of weird.”

Anchorage Assembly: Planning and Zoning Commission - September 21, 2026 - 2026-09-21 18:30:00 ·

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Daniel McKenna-Foster“The one to the north has been more involved in this. They've expressed they'd love to see something happen there.”

Anchorage Assembly: Planning and Zoning Commission - September 21, 2026 - 2026-09-21 18:30:00 ·

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Daniel McKenna-Foster“B3 provides the most housing and other stuff. R3 is the most housing-focused.”

Anchorage Assembly: Planning and Zoning Commission - September 21, 2026 - 2026-09-21 18:30:00 ·

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Radhika Krishna“Could staff speak to the comments that Parks submitted about future trail access easements and wetlands?”

Anchorage Assembly: Planning and Zoning Commission - September 21, 2026 - 2026-09-21 18:30:00 ·

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Andres Spinelli“That motion passes. Next item, staff presentation, case 2026-0113.”

Anchorage Assembly: Planning and Zoning Commission - September 21, 2026 - 2026-09-21 18:30:00 ·

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Daniel McKenna-Foster“Changing this would allow the property owner to rezone through the abbreviated rezone process to B-3, B-1B, CCO, or R-3 or R-3A.”

Anchorage Assembly: Planning and Zoning Commission - September 21, 2026 - 2026-09-21 18:30:00 ·

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Jason Norris“Just want to speak in favor of this. Anything we can do to streamline the eventual placement of housing on this track would be, in my opinion, a good thing. Obviously, U-Med has developed over time to become a major employment center, and starting to place more housing near our major employment centers where people can get there by mode other than vehicle would be a positive.”

Anchorage Assembly: Planning and Zoning Commission - September 21, 2026 - 2026-09-21 18:30:00 ·

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Jeff Raun“with permission of the chair, um, can we please withdraw the motion to amend?”

Anchorage Assembly: Planning and Zoning Commission - September 21, 2026 - 2026-09-21 18:30:00 ·

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Radhika Krishna“I don't believe Title 21 is the place to make— to encourage uses. I believe that the code should be reserved for very clear regulatory guidance, and I'm reading this language as encouraging or supporting potential uses in a non— one of a large list of uses and programs and activities that we might want to see in our parks. I don't believe code is the way to do that.”

Anchorage Assembly: Planning and Zoning Commission - September 21, 2026 - 2026-09-21 18:30:00 ·

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Radhika Krishna“I would like to withdraw my second. Because I do think that Mr. McKenna Foster has identified the issue that I'm getting hung up on, which is that in other sections of Title 21, accessory uses are very strictly defined, especially for the residential and commercial uses.”

Anchorage Assembly: Planning and Zoning Commission - September 21, 2026 - 2026-09-21 18:30:00 ·

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Luke Bertram“with the temporary sales of products grown on-site, this cleans things up with sales of pre-plugs because otherwise the next best use would be commercial horticulture. To allow sales of the tree plugs that are grown on site at Russian Jack Park.”

Anchorage Assembly: Planning and Zoning Commission - September 21, 2026 - 2026-09-21 18:30:00 ·

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Luke Bertram“this spring we rezoned about 9,345 acres of parkland over 742 parcels to the PR zoning district. When we brought this to the Planning and Zoning Commission on December 8th, 2025, this had originally included Russian Jack Park and Centennial Park.”

Anchorage Assembly: Planning and Zoning Commission - September 21, 2026 - 2026-09-21 18:30:00 ·

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Daniel McKenna-Foster“So there was no opposition. We didn't have any comments from opposition. Proposition. AKDOT commented just in the future, you know, they're going to be concerned about access onto Tudor”

Anchorage Assembly: Planning and Zoning Commission - September 21, 2026 - 2026-09-21 18:30:00 ·

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Megan Mills“we heard about 2 community council meetings. That the municipal went through during their review process, and we did not hear any opposition to this motion.”

Anchorage Assembly: Planning and Zoning Commission - September 21, 2026 - 2026-09-21 18:30:00 ·

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Megan Mills“that this meets the general approval criteria, being that it aligns with the 2040 Land Use Plan. It does not change the internal consistency of the comprehensive plan. It supports the public interest, health, and safety of the community.”

Anchorage Assembly: Planning and Zoning Commission - September 21, 2026 - 2026-09-21 18:30:00 ·

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Daniel McKenna-Foster“currently this piece of property is zoned PLI, but when you look at the land use plan map, it has 3 different designations on it: Parker Natural Area, Town Center, Community Facility Institution, and the Transporter Development Overlay. So the issue is, if anybody ever wanted to rezone this parcel. It's confusing for us because it's hard to say with one parcel with, you know, 3, 4 designations what it should go to.”

Anchorage Assembly: Planning and Zoning Commission - September 21, 2026 - 2026-09-21 18:30:00 ·

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Jared Gardner“I move in case 2026-0102 to recommend the Anchorage Assembly approval of an ordinance amending AMC Chapter 21.0 05 use regulations to support existing uses and Anchorage parks.”

Anchorage Assembly: Planning and Zoning Commission - September 21, 2026 - 2026-09-21 18:30:00 ·

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Daniel McKenna-Foster“we also went and talked to the present Campbell Park Community Council on August 20th and the U Med Community Council on September 2nd. Both were favorable or in support or not opposed.”

Anchorage Assembly: Planning and Zoning Commission - September 21, 2026 - 2026-09-21 18:30:00 ·

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Jeff Raun“I have concern over what was raised by previous commissioners around the element of the use as deviating from what's currently in code. So I propose to amend the motion on the floor by striking childcare programming and temporary sales of products grown on the premises.”

Anchorage Assembly: Planning and Zoning Commission - September 21, 2026 - 2026-09-21 18:30:00 ·

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Jeff Landfield“I was shocked to learn that Gina Romero, APD's Director of Community Relations, initiated the strike in her official capacity. On September 2nd, I sent Romero an email informing her I was aware of what she did and asking for an explanation. I copied Municipal Attorney Ava Gardner and Assembly Chair Anna Brawley.”

Anchorage Assembly: Assembly Regular - September 15, 2026 ·

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William Falsey“I think that was a descriptive understanding of how this issue arose rather than necessarily a prescriptive position, but I did hear your suggestion over email earlier today, which you've repeated here now, and I've passed that along. I think that is a fair way way to approach this.”

Anchorage Assembly: Assembly Regular - September 15, 2026 ·

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Jared Goecker“Can you maybe talk a little bit about the requirement to copyright branding on body cam footage. My understanding is that's actually a requirement that was put on APD by the assembly. Is that correct?”

Anchorage Assembly: Assembly Regular - September 15, 2026 ·

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“It was not taken because anyone was because it was critical of the chief or because they were critical of the police department or because they used work session video or because anyone wanted to silence the press. It was because of an attempt to make sure that the body cam footage which had been posted with a copyright notice was not edited in a misleading way. But when that was brought to the municipal attorney's attention, I think they correctly advised that that is not a grounds to file a First Amendment request in the Facebook situation. So that request was withdrawn, and again, the video has been restored.”

Anchorage Assembly: Assembly Regular - September 15, 2026 ·

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William Falsey“This was an instance where someone made a well-intentioned but mistaken call, and when it was brought to our attention, it was quickly corrected.”

Anchorage Assembly: Assembly Regular - September 15, 2026 ·

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Daniel Volland“my question is, can we look at any department before reporting to a third party Can they also do the courtesy of reaching out to any media outlet to request them to take down that footage before reporting them to a third party?”

Anchorage Assembly: Assembly Regular - September 15, 2026 ·

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Daniel Volland“I think it's probably worth looking at the legislative intent of the copyright piece. Certainly, I don't think it was the intention of the Assembly to ever use that in a way to violate fair use.”

Anchorage Assembly: Assembly Regular - September 15, 2026 ·

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Jeff Landfield“I recall the outrage from many assembly members when former Mayor Dave Bronson's municipal manager Amy Domboski tried to cut the live feed of an assembly meeting in 2021. The public learned of that because a landmine caught her on camera trying to do it and later obtained and published an email from John Krabb in which he described what Domboski tried to do and how he refused.”

Anchorage Assembly: Assembly Regular - September 15, 2026 ·

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“I gave them 2 days notice. Nobody got back to me. I copied you, I copied, um, Miss Multurney, and it took a news article to get a response from Miss Romero, which happened about less than 2 hours later.”

Anchorage Assembly: Assembly Regular - September 15, 2026 ·

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