Video Clips
Quoted moments from Alaska public meetings, hearings, and press conferences.
Clips from Alaska Housing Finance CorporationClear
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Shaun Debenham“the fire code has got to be changed. Okay, this is Raspberry Townhomes. All right, a normal driveway is 25 feet.”
Alaska's Housing Shortage: The Factors That Cause It & The Levers We Control - 8/27/26 ·
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Shaun Debenham“that represents 30% lot coverage ratio. 30%. Now, that's interesting because R-3, which is the zone that I'm in, allows 40%, right? So I missed out by 30%. I could have increased the number of units if I had actually been able to get to 40% just simply because of existing Title 21 setbacks and other types of regulations that they have.”
Alaska's Housing Shortage: The Factors That Cause It & The Levers We Control - 8/27/26 ·
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Robert Doehl“So where do we as a municipality lower the cost going forward? There's basically 4 areas we look at. First one, cut red tape.”
Alaska's Housing Shortage: The Factors That Cause It & The Levers We Control - 8/27/26 ·
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Shaun Debenham“a hotel has no design standards requirement, right? But if I want to do multifamily, I have to increase my cost by 15% in order to achieve those design standards. And so why do we have design standards for multifamily, and we really desperately need multifamily, but no design standards for hotels”
Alaska's Housing Shortage: The Factors That Cause It & The Levers We Control - 8/27/26 ·
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Robert Doehl“what really excites me is what we're doing now, rolling out first quarter of next year, which is a new permit management system.”
Alaska's Housing Shortage: The Factors That Cause It & The Levers We Control - 8/27/26 ·
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Shaun Debenham“here we have 44 feet of asphalt, and that's because of the fire code on our south side. And on our north side, we have a 38-foot drive aisle All asphalt, all extremely ugly because of our fire code. Now I ask the question, why is a fire truck dictating housing policy in Anchorage, Alaska? So that fire lane access represents 7,520 square feet, which is 15 units, just because of our fire code policy.”
Alaska's Housing Shortage: The Factors That Cause It & The Levers We Control - 8/27/26 ·