A state plan to resurface and restore the Seward Highway has Moose Pass residents afraid the construction will cause irreparable damage to their town.
Residents of Moose Pass, including the owners of the Estes Brothers Store , are concerned about the impact of right-of-way acquisitions in their community. the Seward Highway has Moose Pass residents afraid the construction will cause irreparable damage to their town.
“The little old Alaskan downtown look that we’ve had here forever, which kinda makes Moose Pass unique, will be gone,” he said. “All the old-grow trees will be taken back, we’ll have people’s front yards on the roadway and it won’t be the same easy-going, simple-looking American/Alaskan town that we’ve had before.”
DOT said the scope of the project has changed. Justin Shelby, an administrative operations manager for the department, said the current project has been scaled down from a larger rehab project, partially as a result of concerns from the community about impact. And in 2019, it was combined with a separate road resurfacing project.
Many Moose Pass residents will have their driveways modified, relocated or removed as a result of this project. In an August 2021 to the Moose Pass Advisory Planning Commission, Project Engineer Kirsten Valentine pointed out that many driveways in Moose Pass were built without a permit and don’t meet driveway standards. She said the project will remove redundant driveways and bring others to compliance.
Estes said that area gets buried in snow in the winter, and the other option — putting the entryway on the back of the store — just doesn’t make good business sense.
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