Juneau affordable housing project gets second chance at permit after appeal
The Glory Hall’s very affordable housing challenge in Juneau received a enhance Tuesday evening when it properly appealed a city permit denial.
In a unanimous vote, the Juneau Arranging Fee sent the permit again to the city’s Local community Enhancement Section and gave it 30 times to rethink its determination.
The Glory Corridor plans to convert its former homeless shelter creating into 7 housing units downtown. The town denied construction permits for the occupation back in December for the reason that it reported the renovation would raise density in an avalanche hazard zone.
“Their place is we could have 50 homeless people dwelling on this parcel, but we just cannot have 14 renters,” argued Mary Alice McKeen, the Glory Hall’s attorney.
The city’s advancement division interpreted density to suggest selection of models, although the Glory Hall argued that the selection of occupants really should be made use of when figuring out density.
Ken Alper sits on the Organizing Fee. He stated that considering that density is not particularly described in the relevant piece of code, the fee would now define it as the full range of folks. This has implications for foreseeable future jobs.
The Organizing Commission also directed advancement department to acknowledge an engineering review provided by the Glory Corridor that it experienced previously not utilized in its permit final decision. That research discovered that the constructing is not in a intense hazard zone.
The improvement section and the Glory Corridor have 20 days to contest the selection to the Assembly if they would like to do so.
