One more forum: Wednesday at 5:30 at DZ is a candidate forum sponsored by the National Education Association (NEA). I'll have to leave early to teach my Wednesday evening class.
I was interviewed by APRN for a segment on Ethics that was broadcast this past weekend. The hour-long program is archived at http://www.akradio.org/archive/index.html. My segment is near the end.
Tonight the Assembly will probably adopt the Transportation Development Plan. We will also have a hearing and possibly adopt the new Comprehensive Plan which will guide Juneau's development for the next 10-12 years. It has been reviewed by many groups and gone over line by line by the Planning Commission for the past year. The Assembly has spent 3 meetings examining it and amending bits and pieces.
The one small piece that I will address tonight is stream buffers on Montana Creek. A couple years ago Trout Unlimited did a detailed scientific analysis of this anadromous stream and recommended 500 foot buffers on either side of it (other streams on CBJ land have 200 foot setbacks. The setback requirement for development on private land is 50 feet from an anadromous stream). Over the past two years the Trout Unlimited proposal was presented to and approved by the Wetlands Review Board, the Parks and Recreation Advisory Committee and the Planning Commission. It was also reviewed without recommendation by the Affordable Housing Commission, the Assembly Lands Committee and several other groups. In other words, it has gone through the full public process, and then was approved by our Land Use experts- the Planning Commission. However, in the Assembly's final review of the document it was reduced back to 200 feet. I will bring this forward to our public meeting tonight and have invited members of Trout Unlimited, the Planning Commission, Parks and Recreation and others to present the case. I truly hope the Assembly will respect the scientific analysis and public process.
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