Q&A Kodiak City Council and Kodiak Island Borough Assembly Candidates ***************************************************************************** Have you read the draft borough code revision? Do you think the borough residents will benefit from the revisions? Do you think that the current code and draft revisions give borough officials to much control over individual property owners? Or do you believe that the codes are necessary to control property owners and prevent abuses. As an example, among many other restrictions the zoning code for Residential property prohibits the storage of firewood within 5 of side line boundaries. ****************************************************************************** Rebecca Skinners, Candidate for KIB Assembly I have not read all of the draft Borough Code revisions and compared them to the current code, so I can’t speak to whether residents will benefit from the proposed revisions. I don’t think property owners should be caught unaware of new restrictions on uses of their property, and that effective communication about changes and opportunity for real public involvement and response, is important. Regulations should have a logical basis, and if proposed regulations are very restrictive or represent significant changes from current practices, then I’d expect to see discussion about what alternatives were evaluated and why the new regulation is necessary. ****************************************************************************** Larry LeDoux, Candidate for KIB Assembly I have read some but not all of the code revisions yet so I cannot comment. However, I want to limit government regulations rather than to add more. Regulations, like the 5’ boundary for stacking firewood are a prime example of government bureaucracy. Trying to regulate the behavior of a few by restricting the rights of the majority is usually ineffective. Further, every ordinance represents both a fiscal cost, related to monitoring and enforcement, and a human cost, related to the time and stress of compliance. Before adding a regulation I would want to know clearly, with evidence, exactly what problem the proposed code ordinance is designed to address. Is firewood stacking a fire hazard? Have there been complaints from homeowners? Are property values being diminished because of firewood stacking next to a fence? Is this a problem that can be handled by two neighbors talking across the fence? ***************************************************************************** Marnier List, Candidate for Kodiak City Council I have not entirely read the revisions. Some residents will be very negatively impacted. While every community has to have codes, there is also common sense and working with the existing community layout. Some of the proposed codes work against that. I have heard that some codes in the past were developed so individuals could profit. I do wonder why we can’t use local non-kiln dried lumber for residences. Why do small cabins have to be engineered?
Posted on: Sun, 05 Oct 2014 22:09:13 +0000
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