Kenai Peninsula Borough Planning Commission

Materials taken from the site will be used to widen the Sterling Highway between Sterling and Soldotna. That stretch of the road is recognized by the Alaska Department of Transportation and Public Facilities as having higher-than-normal rates of serious vehicle accidents driven in part by busy summer traffic patterns.

In a public hearing Tuesday night, more than a dozen gravel pit operators turned out to share grievances with the assembly's latest gravel pit code revision. The assembly hopes to take a final vote within the month.

The "Safe Streets and Roads for All" grant will allow the Kenai Peninsula Borough to create a transportation safety plan, and be eligible for federal highway money.

Advisory planning commissions are groups of appointed residents who make recommendations to the borough about planning and public land use. Petitioners in Nikiski support a map for that commission that includes the communities of Tyonek and Beluga on the other side of Cook Inlet. The Borough Planning Commission is advocating for a different map that does not include the west side.

A slate of regulation changes for gravel pits is back on the table at the Kenai Peninsula Borough Assembly, reigniting a debate about the borough’s most…

The Kenai Peninsula Borough Planning Commission will have an additional three members. And now, those members will have to live in the cities and borough…

Appointments to the Kenai Peninsula Borough’s Planning Commission are usually straightforward. Lately, however, the process for filling seats on the…

Borough Mayor Charlie Pierce said the current process for appointing city representatives to the borough’s planning commission needs an update. He drafted…