Video Clips
Quoted moments from Alaska public meetings, hearings, and press conferences.
Clips from Petersburg BoroughClear
0:24
Matt Schwartz
“it's nice to think about this fall and just on visitors, but I'm thinking about businesses. Amount of money I've spent at Piston and Rudder, or I just ordered $80,000 worth of engines from Napa. So it does fall on businesses as well, and the local businesses will generate probably quite a bit more money than the visitors from out of town.”Assembly Meeting · May 20, 2026
0:16
Speaker B
“just want to, uh, say congratulations that we got our certificate of need. Yes, another big, big hurdle.”PMC Hospital Board Meeting April 2026 · May 7, 2026
0:19
Speaker A
“It would just give them the right to sell property to a cell tower and have a cell tower put in without having to go through the whole conditional use process or anything else. So, which would make it simpler and would also encourage towers to be in locations we want them to be.”Planning Commission Meeting 5.12.2026 · May 12, 2026
0:32
Speaker A
“we also should include, you know, the areas where the cell towers already exist on Forest Service land outside of— so the top of Lindenberg Peak and the top of Crystal Mountain.”Planning Commission Meeting 5.12.2026 · May 12, 2026
0:36
Speaker A
“if you're going to go over so many feet, You gotta go through the process for conditional use permit. Okay, so that way there are just things, anything that we say up to so tall, it's by right, up to such and such a standard, it's by right. But if you want to exceed those, then you do have the option of filing for conditional use permit”Planning Commission Meeting 5.12.2026 · May 12, 2026
0:37
Speaker B
“they also had language saying that 110% of the height of the tower was the distance you had to be from another property, from property line. So we would want that also, right?”Planning Commission Meeting 5.12.2026 · May 12, 2026
0:30
Speaker A
“if the individual owner wants it, right? That's the benefit of the notice process, because I do know there are people in town who very much want to be able to sell, and there's some very much don't. So it's good to get it in writing.”Planning Commission Meeting 5.12.2026 · May 12, 2026
0:23
Speaker B
“the good thing about the notice process is that, you know, anything we're including in the overlay, we have to notice private persons. And so they would get a chance to say, like, no, I don't want this in the overlay, or I very much do want this in the overlay.”Planning Commission Meeting 5.12.2026 · May 12, 2026
0:31
Speaker A
“on this lot up by the Baylor facility, the stuff up closer to the Baylor facility is probably the area that would be the best. That's the reason why I kind of split that, you know, the line doesn't go all— cover that whole lot, because otherwise you're getting down closer to the residential.”Planning Commission Meeting 5.12.2026 · May 12, 2026
0:45
Speaker A
“It also makes it easier for them if they do want to put in a tower, they can— they go and look at the map and say, obviously, these are the locations the borough would like us to put cell towers to give the most setback to the residential and everything else, but also is properties that have good locations, and then they can pick off that list what will meet their needs the best.”Planning Commission Meeting 5.12.2026 · May 12, 2026
0:19
Speaker B
“another reason for this overlay is the Telecommunications Act does not permit municipalities to totally ban towers. And so that's why we're— that's a big reason why we're doing this.”Planning Commission Meeting 5.12.2026 · May 12, 2026
0:56
Speaker B
“it's because of the community desire to choose and recommend certain sites to wireless communication companies, um, so as to limit surprise and have some sort of public input in the locations, um, and kind of ease that process.”Planning Commission Meeting 5.12.2026 · May 12, 2026
0:49
Speaker A
“there's up, uh, Three Lakes Loop Road to where the mill is, and then there's some mental health land right around the mill, but this big Lot 12 that's right there is owned by the State of Alaska. And that would be a good potential location as well, because that is up at elevation.”Planning Commission Meeting 5.12.2026 · May 12, 2026
0:16
Speaker A
“there's those ones up. Up Twin Creek, the back of those, there's 2 privately owned industrial lots and a state of Alaska lot. And again, it would be a strip along the back of those would be a good location, I think.”Planning Commission Meeting 5.12.2026 · May 12, 2026