REPEAL KPB ORDINANCE 2011-12
Anadromous Fish habitat protection or government overreach of
private property?
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1) Ordinance 2011-12, when submitted by the Kenai River Center to the KPB Planning Commission failed to clarify that water bodies such as lakes and saltwater bodies would be included. Further, the Planning Commission was premature, possibly misinformed or were never fully aware of the content and issues relating to the Ordinance when presented to the Borough Assembly for its approval and passage.
2) Ordinance 2011-12 is an over-reaching Ordinance that was given little consideration as to the Economic Impact created by its passage. It was adopted without direct prior or reasonable notice to the affected waterfront property owners and other user groups. 3) Under this Ordinance, property owners are still liable for current and increased future property taxes based on the fully assessed but unusable values of their waterfront properties. 4) KPB imposed a zoned 50’ Habitat Protection Area onto PRIVATE PROPERTY which mandates an onerous "permit" system which, in most cases, will create a costly, unnecessary and time delaying process to property owners, thereby greatly limiting control of their once valuable and unique property. |
5) There are currently in place numerous State and Federal Agencies with expertise, experience and resources that have jurisdiction to provide complete protection for development on privately owned lands adjacent to Anadromous bodies of water.
6) Ordinance 2011-12 creates an additional, unnecessary and costly layer of Borough Government oversight with NO existing EXPERTISE or RESOURCES for ENFORCEMENT. This Ordinance was adopted and enacted WITHOUT a detailed analysis of manpower, cost or means to provide any enforcement whatsoever. 7) This Ordinance refers to and links to a Catalog or Register maintained by the State Of Alaska which allows for continual change WITHOUT due process of Public notification of property owners or approval by the peoples representative. |
