Applicants postponed a proposal to bring industry to an Egan Highway roadside parcel placed between the Mendenhall Wetlands Game Refuge and Juneau International Airport.
Becknell Inc. applied for a rezone of Hosinger Pond to a combination of industrial and light commercial uses.
City staff recommended the commission deny the rezoning request. Staff findings said the proposal is not in consent with the land use maps of the city’s comprehensive plan. The rezoning is also larger than two acres.
The 82.66-acre historic gravel pit is located east of the airport, across Egan Highway from Fred Meyer. It abuts the Mendenhall Wetlands Game Refuge.
Of the site’s nearly 83 acres, 62 are planned the by applicant to be used for light commercial.
Becknell’s AME 2012 0011 had been scheduled to be heard by the Planning Commission on Dec. 11. It is not scheduled for the commission’s Tuesday meeting.
• Contact reporter Russell Stigall at 523-2276 or at russell.stigall@juneauempire.com.
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Private Property or public land?
What possesses some of you to think you have the right to dictate what a private property owner can legally do on his own land?
Honsingers could have developed that property 40 years ago, the family sold it to Bicknell so he could utilize it according to the zoning guidelines, but now some feel that "they" should be able to pick the fireweed flowers and enjoy that property for their own enjoyment? YOU should have bought the land then....Bicknell has every right to do whatever he chooses to do with it within the codes and guidelines in place. He sure as heck didn't buy it to donate it to the towns flowerpickers and granolas that detest any and all development.
This towns whiners are just amazing.
What is going here?
Anyone know any facts about this, the article is lacking in details.