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Skyler Quinn

Board Member · Platting Board

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Platting Board: Chair

Anchorage Assembly vote could decide whether new housing rules reach quake-hazard zones

“It would be irresponsible to remove valuable Anchorage land from housing development opportunities through a blanket exclusion”

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Anchorage's water utility could own the rights to most of the city's tap water in 2055

Most of Anchorage's tap water comes from a lake whose water rights belong to the hydro owners. A deal OK'd 12-0 lets the city's water utility own them in 2055.

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Anchorage Assembly amends proposed police surveillance rules, then runs out of time

The Assembly agreed an administrative warrant isn't enough to share surveillance data the rules bar, made it easier to pause a tool, then ran out of clock.

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Downtown business leaders ask Anchorage Assembly to make police foot patrol permanent

Downtown business groups asked the Assembly to make APD's foot patrol permanent. The bed tax money paying for it is nearly gone, and the 2027 budget has none.

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A Knik Arm bridge easement survives — and so does the debate

Anchorage kept a Knik Arm Crossing easement on a port plat — a small vote that keeps alive a long-debated bridge backers call vital resiliency and skeptics call unfunded.

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The Eklutna Gathering Center cleared Platting Board approval after 30 years

30 years in the making: Eklutna's Gathering Center got Platting Board approval Tuesday. Earthquake-ready design included

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Platting Board Denies Shawn Street Vacation Amid Gaming Hall Concerns

Anchorage Platting Board denied a request to vacate Shawn Street in Birchwood, preserving access to undeveloped lots despite neighbors' concerns about gaming hall traffic.

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