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0:10
Jade Powell“This could potentially look like the loss of specialty units in the police department like the HOPE or Mobile Intervention Teams. I was stunned, speechless when I read this.”

Anchorage Assembly: AssemblyRegular: Live ·

0:04
Anna Brawley“On 11 to 1, AO 2026-S as amended has passed the body.”

Anchorage Assembly: AssemblyRegular: Live ·

0:34
Suzanne LaFrance“This year we faced a $15 million budget gap. We were able to close that gap through a combination of one-time funding, targeted adjustments, and by cutting positions that we could eliminate because we had rebuilt municipal services. However, big challenges remain ahead as we prepare for future budget discussions and consider potential cuts in the years to come.”

Anchorage Assembly: AssemblyRegular: Live ·

0:26
Yarrow Silvers“Chief Case confirmed that APD's 14-day policy does not apply to body-worn cameras and dash cameras. And that's where my concern comes in.”

Anchorage Assembly: AssemblyRegular: Live ·

0:22
Tiffany Briggs“Recover Alaska respectfully asks the assembly to do three things. First, fund $2 million in competitive community grants to reduce the harms of alcohol and fund prevention, upstream prevention and treatment of substance use disorders. Second, return ASD Pre-K funding to the alcohol tax and reinstate early literacy.”

Anchorage Assembly: AssemblyRegular: Live ·

0:11
Anna Brawley“Okay, motion by Mr. Vohland to continue the public hearing, uh, to the meeting of November 17th, second by Miss Baldwin Day.”

Anchorage Assembly: AssemblyRegular: Live ·

0:38
Jade Powell“I've seen the work that the HOPE and MIT teams do firsthand, including responding to incidents involving the homeless youth I work with, and it is an essential core cost-saving service that the city provides that provides both better outcomes and avoided costs to other city services. It is laughably misguided to even float the possibility of this cut.”

Anchorage Assembly: AssemblyRegular: Live ·

0:12
Suzanne LaFrance“I urge support of the S version of AO 2026 -108, an approach that both enables modern policing tools and provides strong safeguards for privacy and accountability.”

Anchorage Assembly: AssemblyRegular: Live ·

0:12
Anna Brawley“Speaking of the budget, tonight is the second public hearing on the 2027 budget. That's items 14A through 14H on the agenda. We will be prioritizing those items this evening after dinner.”

Anchorage Assembly: AssemblyRegular: Live ·

0:16
Anna Brawley“on a vote of, uh, 10 to 1, item AR— sorry, I don't have it in front of me anymore, uh, AR 2026-328 passes the body.”

Anchorage Assembly: AssemblyRegular: Live ·

0:39
Kameron Perez-Verdia“that was one of the worst examples of policy development from the very beginning, for how— from how it got introduced to the public, to the entire process, to how it ended.”

Anchorage Assembly: AssemblyRegular: Live ·

0:20
Anna Brawley“I think if you were to wait, I think this conversation around the comprehensive plan is one that will not be resolved quickly. There's a lot of pieces to it, and I know the staff are working on it.”

Anchorage Assembly: Planning and Zoning Commission - November 2, 2026 - 2026-11-02 18:30:00 ·

0:16
Anna Brawley“So And spoiler, I have one of those listed as repeal, because why would we need this 1994 plan? So until that's done, if you're looking at both of those and they do conflict, then that's— again, because this is saying that we legally have to consult with these things and make decisions based on them.”

Anchorage Assembly: Planning and Zoning Commission - November 2, 2026 - 2026-11-02 18:30:00 ·

0:28
Daniel McKenna-Foster“I'd suggest that the Commission do in fact take this up. I think there is value in the resolution, or at least elements of the resolution, in terms of advisory or not.”

Anchorage Assembly: Planning and Zoning Commission - November 2, 2026 - 2026-11-02 18:30:00 ·

0:13
Anna Brawley“essentially what I have concluded as a policymaker and a planner is that we are stuck in an elaborate trap. And so the question is, how do we get out of this trap?”

Anchorage Assembly: Planning and Zoning Commission - November 2, 2026 - 2026-11-02 18:30:00 ·

0:27
Anna Brawley“And so I have— I'm currently drafting— it will be introduced at the next meeting on the 17th— an ordinance that repeals portions of this comprehensive plan. So essentially, I went through and found of those 51 items is something more than 30 years old and it's never been amended.”

Anchorage Assembly: Planning and Zoning Commission - November 2, 2026 - 2026-11-02 18:30:00 ·

0:13
Anna Brawley“So Girdwood Comprehensive Plan. So both the 1994 plan, which has existed obviously since 1995, and then this new one that was adopted in 2025, those are both listed as, as adopted elements of the plan.”

Anchorage Assembly: Planning and Zoning Commission - November 2, 2026 - 2026-11-02 18:30:00 ·

0:27
Daniel McKenna-Foster“Many implementation items have never been tracked or difficult to track, and most plans have no time horizon for when their action items should be completed.”

Anchorage Assembly: Planning and Zoning Commission - November 2, 2026 - 2026-11-02 18:30:00 ·

0:26
Anna Brawley“I will note there are 51 elements in our adopted comprehensive plan. So when we say the plan, we are talking about every single document in that suitcase, plus 8 documents that, as far as I can tell, do not legally exist at the city anymore.”

Anchorage Assembly: Planning and Zoning Commission - November 2, 2026 - 2026-11-02 18:30:00 ·

0:14
Radhika Krishna“I think not to take this item up and instead to let the current Assembly and Assembly Chair propose legislation that might be more timely than this that we might weigh in on.”

Anchorage Assembly: Planning and Zoning Commission - November 2, 2026 - 2026-11-02 18:30:00 ·

0:24
Daniel McKenna-Foster“Planning and Zoning Commission should review should the comp plan or these district plans have the same force of law as the principal policies and goals of the comprehensive plan.”

Anchorage Assembly: Planning and Zoning Commission - November 2, 2026 - 2026-11-02 18:30:00 ·

0:16
Anna Brawley“So essentially it proposes repeal of right now 24 items that will be coming to planning and zoning for further discussion well before it comes back to the assembly. So just a preview. So this conversation will come back in that form and provide more food for thought, hopefully.”

Anchorage Assembly: Planning and Zoning Commission - November 2, 2026 - 2026-11-02 18:30:00 ·

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Daniel McKenna-Foster“the average cost of the a district neighborhood plan is about $300,000 and usually requires about 5 years to be completed.”

Anchorage Assembly: Planning and Zoning Commission - November 2, 2026 - 2026-11-02 18:30:00 ·

0:11
Jeff Raun“my interest is in putting forward a recommendation that is specific to the question asked of should neighborhood and district plans be advisory, full stop.”

Anchorage Assembly: Planning and Zoning Commission - November 2, 2026 - 2026-11-02 18:30:00 ·

0:51
Edith McKee“the very fact that she couldn't find some of these plans, and that means they're digital, meaning people who don't necessarily have readily access to digital mediums, internet, whatnot, may or may not even have the opportunity to participate”

Anchorage Assembly: Planning and Zoning Commission - November 2, 2026 - 2026-11-02 18:30:00 ·

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Anna Brawley“Okay, so for reference, this is our comprehensive plan, this entire suitcase, and I'm, I'm going to open it very briefly so I'll be off the microphone, but I want to demonstrate it is full of paper. This is not a joke.”

Anchorage Assembly: Planning and Zoning Commission - November 2, 2026 - 2026-11-02 18:30:00 ·

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Anna Brawley“The ones from the 1980s, certainly. We have a 1979 area-wide library facility plan. We either built them or we didn't, right? And so, so any kind of consideration of where a new library goes should be updated.”

Anchorage Assembly: Planning and Zoning Commission - November 2, 2026 - 2026-11-02 18:30:00 ·

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Radhika Krishna“whether our comprehensive plan elements have grown so large that they're unable to be updated on the schedule we'd like to keep them updated at, and whether on balance there is a more sustainable future where the department can spend more time implementing plans rather than maintaining a list of, you know, more than 50 plans that appear to still be in effect.”

Anchorage Assembly: Planning and Zoning Commission - November 2, 2026 - 2026-11-02 18:30:00 ·

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Radhika Krishna“some of this is of our own making that we have crafted and forced neighborhood plans that may not necessarily be about land use priorities to, to fit into the shape of the land use plan map”

Anchorage Assembly: Planning and Zoning Commission - November 2, 2026 - 2026-11-02 18:30:00 ·

0:10
Anna Brawley“I think practically speaking, it is legally feasible to repeal all of these and just say we're going to use the Bohl Plan, the Girdwood Plan, and Eagle River Plan.”

Anchorage Assembly: Planning and Zoning Commission - November 2, 2026 - 2026-11-02 18:30:00 ·

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Daniel McKenna-Foster“if, say, the commission said yes, they are now advisory, then this long list of plans, I think 20 or 30 or 40 or so, they wouldn't go away. They could still be referenced, but they wouldn't carry that potential regulatory weight.”

Anchorage Assembly: Planning and Zoning Commission - November 2, 2026 - 2026-11-02 18:30:00 ·

0:41
Jeff Raun“I would like to build on and question if, as a community, we've moved beyond the usefulness of neighborhood and district plans.”

Anchorage Assembly: Planning and Zoning Commission - November 2, 2026 - 2026-11-02 18:30:00 ·

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Jeff Raun“As directed in AR-2025-67, Planning and Zoning Commission should review whether district and neighborhood plans, just district and neighborhood plans within the Municipality of Anchorage, should be considered advisory to the Comprehensive Plan and not have the same force of law as the principles, policies, and goals set forth in it.”

Anchorage Assembly: Planning and Zoning Commission - November 2, 2026 - 2026-11-02 18:30:00 ·

0:11
Erin Baldwin Day“Amazing. How many of you would maybe tell a friend to come or bring a friend with you? Even better. Okay, amazing. We will take that under advisement as we are thinking about a spring summit.”

Anchorage Assembly: MOA Fiscal Future Summit - Wrap-Up Session ·

0:12
Erin Baldwin Day“We do not meet on Election Day. It is in the assembly chambers at the Lusak Library. The meeting starts at 5:00. We anticipate we will get to the budget testimony after 6:30. So you can testify in person, obviously.”

Anchorage Assembly: MOA Fiscal Future Summit - Wrap-Up Session ·

0:16
Erin Baldwin Day“You can also sign up to get a phone call, which I think is a really underutilized tool. The clerk will actually call you from the dais, and then of course your voice gets projected into the chambers like the voice of God coming from above.”

Anchorage Assembly: MOA Fiscal Future Summit - Wrap-Up Session ·

0:44
Erin Baldwin Day“[email protected] will get your thoughts to all of us at the same time, plus the clerk who keeps track of all of that testimony as it comes in. So either way, we will be voting on the fiscal year '27 budget at our meeting on November 17th. So you have between now and then to tell us what you think. The other thing we want to let you know is that we've been kicking around doing this sort of a continuation, like a 2.0 summit in the spring, really focusing on building solutions and the structural adjustments that need to happen in order for our municipality to work its way into the future. How many of you would come back to something like that?”

Anchorage Assembly: MOA Fiscal Future Summit - Wrap-Up Session ·

0:11
Erin Baldwin Day“the fiscal year '27 municipal budget is on our agenda for public hearing. The next public hearing is going to be Wednesday, November 4th. So that is the day after Election Day.”

Anchorage Assembly: MOA Fiscal Future Summit - Wrap-Up Session ·

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Erin Baldwin Day“But you don't actually have to show up in the municipal— in the chambers. You can wait for a phone call. So that is another thing you can do as long as you sign up at least 24 hours in advance. That link to sign up to testify is also on the assembly website. And you can also email us your comments.”

Anchorage Assembly: MOA Fiscal Future Summit - Wrap-Up Session ·

0:29
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.”

Anchorage Assembly: Second Worksession re AO 2026-85, amending Anchorage Municipal Code Title 21 to create new... ·

0:18
Erin Baldwin Day“Functionally, this substitute version appears to be pretty significantly different than what was initially reviewed by PCC. So I just want to confirm, is it the position of the sponsor that this substitute version does not require PCC review?”

Anchorage Assembly: Second Worksession re AO 2026-85, amending Anchorage Municipal Code Title 21 to create new... ·

0:32
Donald Handeland“when you go and take a building in, I mean, I guess bump a lot up to 70% there, that's a lot of very impervial, impure, whatever, surface there that's going to be draining off. And so just having that where, I mean, kind of increasing that standard, but then having threshold of above 50% that they got to submit a plan under.”

Anchorage Assembly: Second Worksession re AO 2026-85, amending Anchorage Municipal Code Title 21 to create new... ·

0:16
Erin Baldwin Day“So starting with Baldwin Day Park Amendment Number 1. So this is the amendment that essentially is the anti-McMansion amendment. It does not permit, or it seeks to reduce, the lot size on which individuals can take advantage of 70% lot coverage.”

Anchorage Assembly: Second Worksession re AO 2026-85, amending Anchorage Municipal Code Title 21 to create new... ·

0:10
Yarrow Silvers“this— what this amendment does is it creates a graduated height transition, which is based on existing residential zoning.”

Anchorage Assembly: Second Worksession re AO 2026-85, amending Anchorage Municipal Code Title 21 to create new... ·

0:12
Anna Brawley“this is on our schedule to be on our agenda for Wednesday, November 7th— sorry, November 4th. Remember, we have moved our meeting to Wednesday to accommodate the election.”

Anchorage Assembly: Second Worksession re AO 2026-85, amending Anchorage Municipal Code Title 21 to create new... ·

0:23
Anna Brawley“we have a number of public hearing items and other substantive items on our agenda, so Assembly leadership is looking hard at how to prioritize those things. So as of right now, this is on our agenda, but just to note, there are multiple other things competing for time, so we will be working out exactly when and how we take this up.”

Anchorage Assembly: Second Worksession re AO 2026-85, amending Anchorage Municipal Code Title 21 to create new... ·

0:18
Erin Baldwin Day“I'm talking about Amendment Number 7, which addresses drainage. And I'm curious about the consideration. Did the sponsors consider regulation based on permeable versus impermeable surfaces rather than total building coverage?”

Anchorage Assembly: Second Worksession re AO 2026-85, amending Anchorage Municipal Code Title 21 to create new... ·

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Erin Baldwin Day“is it safe to say that this would actually make things more challenging, more complicated, more difficult to interpret for members of the public, including members of the Planning Department?”

Anchorage Assembly: Second Worksession re AO 2026-85, amending Anchorage Municipal Code Title 21 to create new... ·

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