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Anchorage planners back an 8-foot Girdwood fence near the Holtan Hills entrance
Anchorage's Planning Department recommends letting Girdwood homeowner Douglas Menish build an 8-foot fence in his front setback, where code allows 4 feet. The Planning and Zoning Commission is scheduled to decide Monday.
Staff found the request meets all eight criteria required for a variance, according to the staff report.
Menish cites his lot's grade, privacy and construction traffic from Holtan Hills, a planned housing subdivision. His house on Hightower Road sits about 2 feet below the road and roughly 200 feet west of the Holtan Hills entrance, his application says, so a 4-foot fence would screen only about 2 feet from the street. He wrote that building the subdivision's entry road from July to October 2025 brought Jake brake noise, dust and "construction trucks turning around in our driveway," and that all construction traffic for Phases 1 through 3 will pass his lot.
He points to a Girdwood Board of Supervisors resolution from October 2025, which says Holtan Hills is expected to increase the number of homes reached by Hightower Road about 2.5 times. The resolution calls Hightower Road the sole access to Girdwood K-8 School and notes no comprehensive traffic impact analysis had been done. The board asked the Municipality to start one.
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