North Slope Borough: Revisions to Municipal Code Chapters 18 and 19
Project Date: 2009 to present
Project Manager: Shelly Wade
Client: North Slope Borough
Location: North Slope Borough, including: Anaktuvuk Pass, Atqasuk, Barrow, Kaktovik, Nuiqsut, Pt. Hope, Pt. Lay, and Wainwright
Public Participation
Upcoming Community Meetings
Dates are tentative and specific times and locations will be determined soon.
- May 25, 2009
Kaktovik
- May 26, 2009
Atqasak
Wainwright
- May 27, 2009
Barrow
- May 29, 2009
Point Lay
- June 1, 2009
Nuiqsut
Anaktuvak Pass
- June 3, 2009
Point Hope
NSB Community Meeting Flyer (267 KB)
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Project Description
Agnew::Beck is assisting the North Slope Borough (NSB) in its review and redraft of NSB Municipal Code Titles 18 and 19, regarding subdivisions and zoning.
The borough is the largest municipality in the country, encompassing an area of 89,000 square miles. It's bordered by the foothills of the Brooks Range on the south, the Beaufort Sea to the north, Canada on the east and the Chukchi Sea to the west. Most of the Borough’s approximately 7,500 permanent residents live in Anaktuvuk Pass, Atqasuk, Barrow, Kaktovik, Nuiqsut, Pt. Hope, Pt. Lay, and Wainwright. Oilfield workers also come up to work in Deadhorse (Prudhoe Bay). The region is home to a predominantly Inupiaq Eskimo population whose cultural practices center on traditional whaling and other subsistence hunting, fishing, trapping and gathering activities throughout the region.
North Slope Borough Municipal Code (NSBMC) Title 18, "Subdivisions," concerns platting, creation of subdivisions, and subdivision development standards. Title 19, "Zoning," concerns the Planning and Community Services Department, the Barrow Zoning Commission, zoning districts, resource development, permitting, and enforcement.
The goal of the first phase of this project is to assess changes to the Titles 18 and 19 community stakeholders would like to see with a focus on clarifying and refining topics in which the policy direction has already been generally established. The second phase will focus on establishing stakeholder agreement to changes or revised language and to codify the new language.
Questions? Contact Shelly Wade.
Background Information
Share your ideas with the North Slope Borough.
We need YOUR help to review and improve
municipal code Title 18 + 19.
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