Tomorrow’s Kenai Peninsula Borough Nikiski community meeting on the Alaska LNG Project will focus on questions about the borough’s involvement in the Kenai Spur Highway relocation.
Special Oil and Gas Assistant Larry Persily with the Borough…
Persily: “There’s been a lot of questions from residents in the area of the plant site, residents who may or may not be affected by the Kenai Spur Highway Relocation Project if the Alaska LNG Project goes ahead with that, and they’ve asked, what involvement does the borough have, what requirements are there for the borough, what can the borough do or not do about this.”
Borough Planning Director Max Best will be present to help explain local requirements for platting road access, neighborhoods, and intersections in regards to the highway’s relocation.
Persily: “The borough is not picking the route, the borough is not funding the route, the borough is not going to buy the land but because of the rules in the borough you do have to get some approval through the platting process to work with connector roads and existing access.”
He says as far as he knows, the highway relocation project has not picked any preferred route options since the open house in October where project leaders revealed what is referred to as a “spaghetti map”.
The meeting will be from 6:30 to 8:00 p.m. Thursday, January 21, at the Nikiski Recreation Center.
