Anchorage will never be a “great northern city” until it is great for everyone, from students to new residents to first-time homebuyers to retirees.
Updated: 3 minutes agoBuildings of downtown Anchorage are seen beyond homes in the South Addition neighborhood on Thursday, March 21, 2024. .” The authors took issue with the HOME Initiative, an ordinance before the Anchorage Assembly that would streamline our city’s zoning and make it simpler and easier for landowners to build more types of housing in Anchorage, including duplexes and triplexes.
We don’t believe that this approach has been successful. The 1990s planning process venerated by the authors created an extraordinarily restrictive, complex and burdensome zoning system that has failed in critical ways and now threatens the health of our city. Our current zoning regime has become a chaotic mess of numerous zones, “overlays” of now-unknown origin, and arbitrary restrictions that have made it difficult and uneconomical to build in Anchorage — in the “urban hubs” or elsewhere.
This crisis has made rentals prohibitively expensive and has put homeownership out of reach for many. It prevents motivated and hard-working people from moving to Anchorage and encourages them to move away. It cannibalizes our economy by causing housing to devour an ever-larger proportion of our incomes. It is a primary driver of Anchorage’s homelessness epidemic, whose tragic scenes play out on our streets and in our parks every day.
The Anchorage Assembly has a mandate to solve problems, not to treat as gospel restrictive interpretations of a decades-old planning process that has severely harmed our housing market. We, the undersigned, commend the Assembly for exploring solutions to our housing crisis, and request that it steadily move forward to implement those solutions. Every day that zoning reform is delayed is a day that real people’s housing needs are harder to meet and our city falls further and further behind.
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