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Mat-Su board approves Willow-area land split without requiring a mile-plus road
The Matanuska-Susitna Borough Platting Board on Thursday approved a preliminary plat splitting a 40-acre parcel near Willow into two lots and excused the owners from building the road that borough rules would normally require. No board member objected, and no one testified.
The parcel, to be called Deception Bluff, sits south of West Willow Fishhook Road at the far southern edge of the Greater Willow road service area. Inside a road service area, borough code requires new lots to have physical road access. Here, that would have meant building about 6,800 feet of road, more than a mile, the owners' surveyor wrote, as reported last week.
Surveyor Owen Dicks of Resolute Land Surveying wrote that the parcel has legal access from Willow-Fishhook Road through section-line and public access easements. Nearby parcels appear to be used for recreation and are reached by ATV and foot trails, he wrote, and building the road would cost far more than the property is worth.
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