Stewardship - Common Sense - Private Property - Accountability
As Alaskans, we know how important healthy salmon runs are to our community. Through healthy stewardship practices, we can find a workable solution to solving the salmon habitat issue, without the Borough encroaching on private property rights of owners and waterfront land users.
PROTECT THE ANADROMOUS FISH WATERS-NOT THE TAKING OF PRIVATE PROPERTY!
Citizens 4 Responsible Waterfront Land Use was formed by a group of local residents and concerned citizens when some local KPB property owners received a letter from the Kenai Peninsula Borough dated April 4, 2012 re: the passage of the KPB Ordinance 2011-12 or “the anadromous fish ordinance”. This letter stated it was enacted on June 21, 2011. It was ten months after its passage that many affected property owners received direct notice. When the Borough Assembly passed Ordinance 2011-12, it not only expanded a ZONED habitat protection district (it went from mean high water to 50 ft. onto private property), but restricted land use on ALL anadromous fish lakes and rivers in the Borough, including Kalgin Island and the West side of Cook Inlet. After passage, the affected water bodies more than tripled:
Prior to Ordinance 2011-12 607 waterfront miles
After Ordinance 2011-12 2,317 waterfront miles
Upon reviewing these new Zoning regulations, we realized there were several grave issues with the Ordinance - and our group agreed that we would like to see it repealed and brought back to the drawing board. Our group believes that our KPB residents can develop a local community based effort to find a positive solution to enhance the local salmon habitat - without onerous government mandated regulations.
For more information, please contact us at: info@c4rwlu.org
Alaska Association of Relators, Inc. - Position Paper: Click here to download
Meetings: Mondays 6:00p.m. @ Paradisos Restaurant - Kenai Spur Highway
Prior to Ordinance 2011-12 607 waterfront miles
After Ordinance 2011-12 2,317 waterfront miles
Upon reviewing these new Zoning regulations, we realized there were several grave issues with the Ordinance - and our group agreed that we would like to see it repealed and brought back to the drawing board. Our group believes that our KPB residents can develop a local community based effort to find a positive solution to enhance the local salmon habitat - without onerous government mandated regulations.
For more information, please contact us at: info@c4rwlu.org
Alaska Association of Relators, Inc. - Position Paper: Click here to download
Meetings: Mondays 6:00p.m. @ Paradisos Restaurant - Kenai Spur Highway
“ It is not the right of property which is protected, but the right to property. Property, per se, has no rights: but the individual—the man—has three great rights, equally sacred from arbitrary interference: the right to his life, the right to his liberty, the right to his property…The three are so bound together as to be essentially one right. To give a man his life but deny him his liberty, is to take from him all that makes his life worth living. To give him his liberty but take from him the property which is the fruit and badge of his liberty, is to still leave him a slave.” (George Sutherland, “Principle or Expedient?”, Annual Address to the New York State Bar Association, 21 January 1921, p. 18.)