Author: KFSK Petersburg

An extensive revision of Petersburg borough code on zoning and land use could be up for approval by the borough assembly as soon as next month. The new development code covers what’s allowed for land use, buildings and subdivisions. The proposal would streamline some of the borough’s approval process for permit applications. It would also create some new zoning categories for land within service area one, within the old city limits for Petersburg.

Petersburg’s planning commission wants the borough to pursue additional long-term parking space at Petersburg’s airport. The borough assembly Tuesday had that discussion along with a closed discussion on oversight of the electrical department.

A bill granting over 14-thousand acres of state land to the Petersburg borough passed the Alaska House today Wednesday by a vote of 39-0.
As a newly formed borough, Petersburg is entitled to a land grant of ten percent of the available state land that hasn’t been designated for another use. The legislation grants nearly a ten-fold increase in that amount, or 14,666 acres.

Petersburg Police pulled one person from a smoking apartment at the Narrows Inn in Petersburg late Friday night and the man was medevaced to Seattle suffering from burns and smoke inhalation.