Video Clips
Quoted moments from Alaska public meetings, hearings, and press conferences.
Daniel Meuninick
“So earlier this year, the city issued an RFP seeking a consultant to help develop a comprehensive wayfinding system for Seward. And wayfinding is a fancy word, but at its most basic level, it's about helping people understand where they are, where they want to go, and how to best get there.”Seward: P&Z Work Session w audio 9 15 2026 · Sep 17, 2026
Daniel Meuninick
“in Seward, there seems to be two points of reference when you hear the word downtown. Some people are referring to the historic downtown where we are here, and some people use downtown to refer to the small boat harbor.”Seward: P&Z Work Session w audio 9 15 2026 · Sep 17, 2026
Courtney Bringhurst
“I would just think Corvus wouldn't be strictly tied to only using our branding guide, but yeah, hopefully they would use their expertise to incorporate some things that would make the signs pop, but then also still have that element of Brandy”Seward: P&Z Work Session w audio 9 15 2026 · Sep 17, 2026
Daniel Meuninick
“We want it to feel Seward, the branding system, but more branded is the design itself versus having to complement the Seward logo.”Seward: P&Z Work Session w audio 9 15 2026 · Sep 17, 2026
Daniel Meuninick
“I think we, we'd be careful not to promote individual businesses, right, versus others. But yeah, I It is a pedestrian system, is the scope of this RFP.”Seward: P&Z Work Session w audio 9 15 2026 · Sep 17, 2026
Daniel Meuninick
“The RFP was included in your packet as well as the proposal from Corvus Design, which was the is a firm that the city selected. They're Anchorage-based, and so they will be helping us develop the system.”Seward: P&Z Work Session w audio 9 15 2026 · Sep 17, 2026
Daniel Meuninick
“so, um, yeah, there's a chance we might need to wait into next year for that piece of it. So yeah, I don't, I don't know if the signs will be up this summer, but that would be the ideal goal, and it's certainly possible. But hopefully at the very least the following summer.”Seward: P&Z Work Session w audio 9 15 2026 · Sep 17, 2026
Daniel Meuninick
“a lot of people do walk from the terminal to the train depot, and what they do is they— there's a sidewalk here, but instead of crossing at the crosswalk and taking the sidewalk, they're often just walking along the industrial side, right? And so So that's where signage here would be important to really follow the proper trail.”Seward: P&Z Work Session w audio 9 15 2026 · Sep 17, 2026
Speaker A
“Also, you could get away from that by being Not singling out individual businesses and being downtown center, or just kind of— I don't want to say vague, but technically.”Seward: P&Z Work Session w audio 9 15 2026 · Sep 17, 2026
Courtney Bringhurst
“So like potentially there may be signage that says, you know, grocery store this way or Safeway this way, that sort of thing. But the main focus of these signage will be to identify distances that people can walk to, or locations that people can walk to.”Seward: P&Z Work Session w audio 9 15 2026 · Sep 17, 2026
Rhonda Hubbard
“Yeah, Commissioner Sharbonneau, are you familiar with Homer? Yes. They have a whole hillside that doesn't have water. That's true. And how do they get water?”Seward: P&Z Regular Meeting 9/1/2026 · Sep 1, 2026
Nathaniel Charbonneau
“I would like to to strike the entire section of III from this.”Seward: P&Z Regular Meeting 9/1/2026 · Sep 1, 2026
Rhonda Hubbard
“I would like to see some sort of provision in here possibly that we have warm light versus cold bright blue lights in neighborhoods because it can get really not very— it's kind of unfriendly lighting otherwise.”Seward: P&Z Regular Meeting 9/1/2026 · Sep 1, 2026
Nathaniel Charbonneau
“What it's going to do do is open up an area for somebody to try to get something through and pass it on to a buyer that ends up with a substandard home.”Seward: P&Z Regular Meeting 9/1/2026 · Sep 1, 2026
Courtney Bringhurst
“Other options would be the community well system, then a cistern and rainwater catchment system, which has quite a few more regulations as this isn't, um, something common within the city right now.”Seward: P&Z Regular Meeting 9/1/2026 · Sep 1, 2026
Nathaniel Charbonneau
“I feel that this section here allows contractors to build a substandard home that is essentially a dry cabin, yet charge premium in-town prices. So somebody in town buying a home expecting utilities now has to live in a dry cabin and move water to their home.”Seward: P&Z Regular Meeting 9/1/2026 · Sep 1, 2026
Rhonda Hubbard
“I know people up in the hills that do have these systems and they work well for them, or they get water out of city limits where these things should go. But in the city, you move to a city to have utilities.”Seward: P&Z Regular Meeting 9/1/2026 · Sep 1, 2026
Nathaniel Charbonneau
“So since we want them all on public utilities because they're living in the city limits, why are we opening up another window to not have them on public utilities?”Seward: P&Z Regular Meeting 9/1/2026 · Sep 1, 2026
Rhonda Hubbard
“Not if they're within 400 feet. If they're within 400 feet, they got to hook up. But do we have anything in our books that says the city's gonna invest, I don't know, millions and millions of dollars for a new water system over there? That's, that's not happening.”Seward: P&Z Regular Meeting 9/1/2026 · Sep 1, 2026
Daniel Meuninck
“The wording is really aimed at that— those developments across the bay that are potential housing areas that don't have any near connection to city water.”Seward: P&Z Regular Meeting 9/1/2026 · Sep 1, 2026
Courtney Bringhurst
“And then also it creates more detailed street lighting standards which weren't previously in there. Some of the main changes do come in the section that outlines the water connection requirement.”Seward: P&Z Regular Meeting 9/1/2026 · Sep 1, 2026
Courtney Bringhurst
“there were some changes that we made with widening the street from 50 to 60-foot right-of-way within city limits, as well as providing some new restrictions for dead-end streets or cul-de-sacs”Seward: P&Z Regular Meeting 9/1/2026 · Sep 1, 2026
Rhonda Hubbard
“you do have areas across the bay that our meridian hits and includes that could actually— a catchment system could lend well to that. I think that the amount of—. The number of lots that are technically would fit into this are small enough.”Seward: P&Z Regular Meeting 9/1/2026 · Sep 1, 2026