Zoning Board of Examiners and Appeals - January 15, 2026 - 2026-01-15 18:30:00

Good evening and welcome to the January 15th, 2026 Municipality of Anchorage Zoning Board of Examiners and Appeals. Will the secretary please call the roll? Ellen McKay. Here. Dave Hale.

Here. Andrew Romerdahl. Here. Brian Bennett. Here.

Craig Bennett. Here. Jason Norris. Here. Jonathan Lang is excused.

You have a quorum. Thank you. Thank you.

Second on the agenda are minutes. We have minutes for Thursday, November 13th, 2025. May I have a positive motion, please?

Moved by Mr. Hale, seconded by Craig Bennett. And are there any, um, corrections to the minutes?

Seeing none, is there any objection to approval of the minutes?

Seeing and hearing none, the minutes are approved.

Special order of business: are there any disclosures this evening?

Yes, Chair, this is Jason Norris.

Go ahead. Yes, unfortunately I will not be able to stay on for the entire meeting and will need to excuse myself at the top of the hour. Okay, thank you.

Mr. Hale. I was recused from participating in case 2025-0113 and will abstain from voting on resolution 2025-012. Thank you. Mr. Bennett. Yeah, thank you.

The petitioner before this board has appealed platting cases that my firm was the representative on in the past, but I have no financial or personal interest in this case and can remain impartial. Can I have a— if there— is there an objection to having Mr. Craig Bennett participate this evening?

Seeing and hearing none, you are directed to participate.

Mr. Romerdaal?

Yes, I was absent for the November 13th meeting and therefore will be abstaining from voting on Resolution 2025-013.

Thank you. Any other disclosures?

Seeing and hearing none, the next item on the agenda is the consent agenda. May I have a positive motion, please? Please.

Moved by Mr. Hale, seconded by Mr. Craig Bennett. Are there any objections to— or does anyone want to remove any item from the consent agenda for further discussion?

Seeing and hearing none, is there any objection to approval of the consent agenda?

Seeing and hearing none, the consent agenda is approved and we will move on.

And Mr. Norris, if you want to leave now since you can't stay for the entire meeting, Uh, you're welcome to do that.

Thank you, Chair. I'll be signing off. Have a good evening. Thank you.

So no appearance requests, no unfinished business, uh, nothing on the regular agenda, which brings us to public hearings. We have one case, Case 2025-0140, uh, petitioner Mr. Rob and Gina Brown, petitioner or the petitioner's representative, available?

He indicates so. Will the staff please describe the notice given in this case?

Oh, short board, excuse me. So without Mr. Norris, we are down to 5.

And when there is a short 5-member board or commission and a postponement Postponement is offered to the petitioner.

So if you would come forward and state your name for—. Yeah, hi, my name is Ron Thompson with SCO Permitting and Engineering, and yes, we are requesting to postpone for a future meeting. Okay. For a larger board. Hopefully.

Yeah. We have some meet— some time to meet with the municipality next week, and so we want to discuss some more things with them before we come before the board. Okay, so do I need a motion? Nope. All right, thank you, Mr. Tuck.

Sorry to make you guys all come out for that little short thing.

Okay, so that's end of public hearings. No reports. I don't have a report. Do you have a report? Do we have anything for next month?

Do you know? Okay, there will be a February meeting, and this is Mr. Hill's last meeting.

We're very sad to see you go. What a way to leave. Better than not.

No committees. Any other board member comments?

Move to adjourn. Okay, second? Second. Okay, the Bennetts have moved and seconded adjournment. We are adjourned.

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