We are filing an appeal against the Planning Commission’s approval of a 10 year conditional use permit for Coogan General LLC to operate a rock crusher in a D3 residential area. We believe that the Planning Commission did not apply the CBJ Code properly in allowing a rock crusher in a D3 zone.

According to the Table of Uses (Title 49) listing for a rock crusher in an area zoned D3 it:

Today in our debates and discussions about the oil industry and Alaska, I would like to write a letter or message that says the following and share it with our government and others:

We lifelong Alaskans, some of whom have had ancestors living here for thousands of years, while others of us came only decades ago, want those of you who have come here recently to understand us as Alaskan people.

Rarely has a CBJ action upset me as much as the Planning Commission’s decision to turn Shattuck Way into a pedestrian only walkway. The only beneficiary of this action appears to be a wealthy property owner, who bought an old building that gets some wear and tear every winter when the snow comes down and must be plowed out. That problem existed when he bought it, so he doesn’t get any sympathy from me. He has been trying for a long time to sell the property at a high price — perhaps he is motivated now more by the lack of a buyer than by any snow removal wear and tear.

Thank you Ruth Danner for representing the people of Juneau and for asking a legitimate question.

On April 12, the Planning Commission approved a 10-year permit for Coogan construction to extract gravel and operate a rock crusher in a D3 residential area.