Erin Baldwin Day

Some Anchorage homes went a month without running water last winter

Anchorage Assembly keeps a non-binding housing resolution moving

“And this is not a directive or a mandate. It is a very strongly worded suggestion.”

Planners urged cutting the overlay's R-1 height break. The sponsors kept it.

Anchorage will weigh housing density, not just price, when it sells land

Fifteen Anchorage Assembly members will have their spending accounts examined in a 9-2 vote

“the public does not trust us when we say that we have our house in order”

Anchorage Assembly weighs $305,000 more for South Goldenview road repairs

“They're only responsible for paying for the maintenance on their little strip of road.”

Anchorage weighs $470,000 no-bid sale of Government Hill lot

“we don't have our own prioritized list of the types of housing that we want to be sure municipal land actually produces”

Anchorage weighs a fiscal summit as property taxes carry the city

“And about two-thirds of our needs are being funded by property tax, and we have double the infrastructure at this point to be able to maintain.”

Anchorage Assembly to vote Sept. 1 on two $4 million AWWU on-call repair contracts

“We have a lot of legacy infrastructure that we have built roads and pipes, um, things that are not indefinite resources”

Anchorage weighs selling city land for housing by units built, not just the highest bid

“The goal is more housing at more price points for more people, for more of our neighbors.”

The Anchorage Assembly may audit every member's spending

Anchorage permits more housing than last year, but from a near-record low

“And I'd like to posit that that trajectory does not get us to 10,000 homes in 10 years.”

Eagle River lot could shed 2002 limits at a Sept. 15 hearing

“special limitations in our zoning designations are notoriously challenging and create really so much confusion about what can and can't be built on a property”

Anchorage keeps blowing past overtime budgets stuck on a 2010 baseline

Three Hillside road districts are dipping into savings as maintenance costs outrun their funding

“road service areas are places where people pay really only for the road maintenance in their area”

Anchorage union deals would sweeten benefits amid a labor shortage

“we are competing with the private sector for employment”

Anchorage picks up the tab for building repairs the state used to help fund

“State and federal funding has shifted significantly over the last decade, and as a result of that, we are shouldering more of the burden for our capital needs”

A Hillside road district taps its own savings to fix its own roads

“They're only responsible for paying for the maintenance on their little strip of road.”

Anchorage weighs $1 million for nonprofits feeding and sheltering vulnerable residents

“I'm curious how much that base grant funding has decreased.”

Anchorage takes another run at its missing-middle housing rules

South Anchorage rezone would allow industrial use in a residential area

“we have a cottage industry that has cropped up around shepherding people's applications through the rezone process for the municipality is its own comment that deserves further review”

Anchorage Assembly resolution seeks school-funding scenarios and deferred maintenance analysis

Anchorage planning boundary dispute unresolved between Assembly and state

“It is really important if we are going to do the collaborative work together, we really need to have all the information before us to be able to make the decisions.”

Anchorage's proposed tax break caps at $497,000. New homes average $750,000.

“So why, why wouldn't you attach the incentive to the income of the buyer as opposed to the price of the home?”

Anchorage resolution would steer infrastructure to neighborhoods absorbing new housing

“that trajectory does not get us to 10,000 homes in 10 years”

Anchorage Assembly studies removal process it has never used

A Seward Highway rebuild that doubled to $1.4 billion is back on Anchorage's plan, over objections

“does not even crack the top 30 most dangerous sections of road”

Anchorage shifts $3.46 million from Denali Street to a Fairview pedestrian boulevard

“AMATS currently does the bulk of our transportation planning and organization for the municipality, even though they are not necessarily a municipal structure.”

Anchorage police and fire overtime budgets built on 2010 math, OMB says

“our full-year actuals with police were over $10 million in overtime spend. The approved overtime budget for this year is $4.9 million.”

Anchorage's Assembly weighs censure — or removal — of George Martinez

“What is not clear is what the second piece of this process looks like, which is the question of the Assembly taking action to remove one of its own members.”

Anchorage keeps deferring a public safety commission it can't agree on

“what I still am not clear on is really what is the problem we are trying to solve. And in all of the documentation I've worked through, I don't really see consensus on that question. What, what is the problem we're trying to solve?”

Anchorage Assembly approves $750K True North grant after amendments fail and crisis-care dispute divides members

Anchorage Assembly to consider first-ever removal proceeding against Martinez

Anchorage planners say 30-foot R-1 height cap would undermine housing overlay

“30 if the underlying zone is R-1. So one of the things we heard during the TSDO process was a really significant current concern about shadows in these R1 neighborhoods, the residential single-family neighborhoods. And so this was a response to that concern to say, okay, in, in R1, we will maintain the height as is, as it already exists in that zone.”

Anchorage takes another run at 'missing middle' housing

“The goal is more housing at more price points for more people, for more of our neighbors.”

Anchorage planners count 21 stalled projects as Assembly weighs housing overlay

“We have never made the jump from our comprehensive plan to actual code change when it comes to these transit supportive corridors. Places where, again, we've said this is where additional density belongs in Anchorage.”

Anchorage approved three ice-arena contracts. The office that oversees them has one employee.

“going back to the audit findings, and this is really sort of an internal business question, but I think it's germane. a lot of those findings were really related to some challenges with contract administration and capacity.”

Anchorage child care fund squeezed by programs moved from alcohol tax

Anchorage Assembly unanimously passes veteran-owned business preference ordinance

APD awards $1.66M opioid settlement contract for deflection program

Anchorage's hockey community moves to take over its own arenas for $10 a year

Anchorage Assembly takes up wipes ban in city sewers June 23

Anchorage city funds carry $45 million in deficits — biggest two still growing

Anchorage budget trade-off: schools OR general government, not both, may be coming

Anchorage homeless residents tell Assembly: shelters worse than jail

Anchorage Assembly reviews missing middle housing overlay for transit corridors

“The problem that we are trying to solve is Once more. Housing supply. That is the point of what we are doing with the Missing Middle Housing Opportunity Overlay.”

True North dropped crisis services from Fairview plan after months of pushback

“when I look at a feasibility study and there's an entire paragraph that says, you know, the mobile outreach team is the service line with the least amount of billable revenue associated given the target population of the service line, and then there's a question at the end about operational impacts if additional grant funding isn't made available. I have questions about sustainability when it sounds like we're shifting harder into that mobile outreach model.”

Anchorage ordinance would open industrial zones to adult care facilities

Anchorage raises veteran bid preference cap to $50,000

“So I just want us to be clear about both of those things as we're contemplating this change.”

Anchorage transit plan adds $684M in routes, microtransit zones through 2052

“is the nexus point for planning for the state and also our local government”