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Project contact: Tom Davis, (907) 343-7916, tom.davis@anchorageak.gov  ​


Project News​:​

October 30, 2024: The public participation process for the 10-year review of community council district boundaries is resuming. Public participation began in 2022 with an online questionnaire and continued in 2023 with a series of consultations with community council officers and meetings of a Boundary Advisory Committee. This week the Planning Department released the recommended, public hearing draft community council district boundaries for public review (see October 2024 Public Hearing Draft Materials below). The public comment period will last from November through January and into the first part of February. The Planning and Zoning Commission (PZC)​ will open the public hearing in January and will continue the public hearing to February to provide community councils and other members of the public enough time to submit their recommendations. After the public hearing closes the PZC will deliberate and forward its recommendations to the Anchorage Assembly. The Assembly will then hold its own public hearing and take final action. 

October 2024 Public Hearing Draft Materials for Public Review

Project Background:

The Municipality in 2022-2023 initiated a 10-year review of Community Council district boundaries including collecting feedback regarding the Community Council district boundaries from the public and Community Councils, and after a hiatus through much of 2024, the project is resuming this fall for its final stage. 

Every 10 years the Municipality reviews the geographic boundaries of the Community Council districts and seeks input as to whether any boundaries between neighborhood community council districts should be adjusted. A 10-year review is required by municipal code in AMC 2.40.040.  This is to ensure that the geographic boundaries of all Community Councils continue to reflect their neighborhoods, and that all citizens continue to get representation by an active, engaged community council for their area. The Municipality last conducted comprehensive boundary reviews in 2003 and 2014. For more information about this project and the public process we are following, please see White Paper No. 1, hyperlinked below.

​Project Timeline:

  • November 2022 - February 2023: Survey Questionnaire and Other Outreach to Identify Boundary Study Areas
  • March 2023 - September 2023: Boundary Advisory Committee Meets to Evaluate Boundary Study Areas and Make its Recommendations

Intermission

  • October 2024 - January/February 2024: Release and Public Review of the Public Hearing Draft Recommended Boundaries
  • January and February 2024: Planning and Zoning Commission (PZC) Public Hearings and Recommendations to Anchorage Assembly 
  • March or April 2025 (schedule TBD): Anchorage Assembly Public Hearing and Final Action 

References:​

Questionnaire​ Responses Identifying the Boundary Study Areas

Many thanks to all who responded to this project's online questionnaire regarding your Community Council district's area and boundaries, or who emailed comments directly to the Planning Department project staff. The survey questionnaire went live in November 2022 and closed at the end of the business day on Friday, February 17, 2023. The survey responses and other comments received were used to identify the boundary study areas for evaluation. White Paper No. 2 (below) and its appendices summarized the public feedback received and lists the resulting boundary study areas being evaluated in this 10-Year Review project. All this information including the public feedback is incorporated into the October 2024 Public Hearing Draft Report and Recommendations and its appendices (see top of web page).    ​

White Papers​ 

Boundary Advisory Committee​ 

A Boundary Advisory Committee made up of a geographically representative group of 12 volunteers from among the Community Councils was organized in early 2023 to provide feedback to the Planning Department and the Planning and Zoning Commission regarding the boundary study areas that were identified by the questionnaire responses and other public comments. See the October 2024 Public Hearing Draft Report and Recommendations (in part 1 of the report) for more information about the Committee's role in the process. The Boundary Advisory Committee held five publicly noticed meetings to evaluate the boundary study areas identified in White Paper No. 2 (above) and provide its recommendations. Following is a summary of its actions and other information:  

Boundary ​Advisory Committee Meeting #1: February 27, 2023

​Boundary ​Advisory Committee Meeting #2: April 3, 2023

Boundary ​Advisory Committee Meeting #3: April 24, 2023

Boundary Advisory Committee Meeting #4: May 1, 2023
Boundary Advisory Committee Meeting #5: June 12, 2023
Boundary Advisory Committee Meeting #6: September 26, 2023

Boundary Advisory Committee Meeting Recordings

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​​Project Updates/News

October 30, 2024

Public Hearing Draft Recommended Boundaries

The public process for the 10-year review of community council boundaries is resuming. The Planning Department has released of the recommended, public hearing draft district boundaries for public review. These reflect the results of the public process from 2023.  See "Project News" at left for details.

October 4, 2023

Boundary Advisory Committee Action Summary

The project's Boundary Advisory Committee completed its review and recommendations for all 39 boundary study areas in June (2023). A "Summary of Actions" showing their recommendations is available at left, under the "Boundary Advisory Committee" header. The Planning Department will prepare a final White Paper report with staff recommendations.


June 12, 2023

Boundary Advisory Committee Meeting #5

A fifth meeting of the Boundary Advisory Committee is scheduled for Monday, June 12, at 6:00 p.m. in the Planning Department's Conference Room 170 of the Planning and Development Center, 4700 Elmore Road, Anchorage.  The meeting is scheduled for two hours (6:00-8:00 p.m.) and is open to the publi​c.  This is a hybrid meeting. Attend in person or via Microsoft Teams.  See agenda and meeting materials at lower left.


April 26, 2023

Boundary Advisory Committee Meeting #4

A fourth meeting of the Boundary Advisory Committee is scheduled for Monday, May 1, at 6:00 p.m. in the Training Room of the Planning and Development Center, 4700 Elmore Road, Anchorage. This meeting is scheduled for two hours (6:00-8:00 p.m.) and is open to the public. This is a hybrid meeting. Attend in person or via Micorosft Teams.


 April 20, 2023 ​​

Boundary Advisory Committee Meeting #3  

Draft minutes from the second meeting of the Boundary Advisory Committee are forthcoming. The third meeting of the Boundary Advisory Committee is scheduled for Monday, April 24, at 6:30 p.m. in the Training Room of the Planning and Development Center, 4700 Elmore Road, Anchorage. This meeting is open to the public. This is a hybrid meeting. Attend in person or via Microsoft Teams; see meeting materials at left under "Boundary Advisory Committee"​. Following is a general project update:


March 23, 2023 

Boundary Advisory Committee Meeting #2  

The second meeting of the Boundary Advisory Committee is scheduled for Monday, April 3, at 6:30 p.m. in Room #170 of the Planning and Development Center, 4700 Elmore Road, Anchorage. This meeting is open to the public. This is a hybrid meeting. Attend in person or via Microsoft Teams​.  

3-15-2023 Project Update Letter to Federation Board of Delegates

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March 3, 2023 

Boundary Advisory Committee Meeting #1 Held 

The project's Boundary Advisory Committee held its initial meeting on February 27. The Committee reviewed the boundary review criteria from White Paper No. 1, learned about the public's responses to the project's survey questionnaire and a resulting list of boundary study areas in an initial draft White Paper No. 2, and discussed the next steps in the public process. Meeting documents are available at left. 

February 7, 2023 ​

Survey Questionnaire Closes on February 17

If you have not already responded to the online survey questionnaire​regarding your Community Council district area, please take a few minutes to do so. The response period has been extended and closes at 5:00 p.m. on Friday, February 17.  ​​

Boundary Advisory Committee Formed

​An initial meeting of this Committee is scheduled on Monday, February 27, at 6:30 p.m. in the Training Room of the Planning and Development Center, 4700 Elmore Road, Anchorage.  It is open to the public. This is a hybrid meeting. Attend in person or via Microsoft Teams. Details forthcoming soon.    
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December 28, 2022

Draft White Paper #1 Released

The Planning Department has released a draft White Paper No. 1, which describes the 10-Year Review of Community Council District Boundaries project, the public process, and the boundary review criteria.  


December 1, 2022 (updated on 12/28)
Online Survey Questionnaire

The Community Councils Center distributed an online survey questionnaire​ to its mass email list and to all Community Council officers in November.  If you are a Community Council member and have not already responded, please take a few minutes to respond to this questionnaire.  

 

October 19, 2022
Federation of Community Councils Board of Delegates

​Planning staff appeared at the October 19, 2022 monthly meeting of the Federation of Community Councils Board of Delegates. This was to inform the delegates about the project, the opportunities for Community Councils to comment regarding whether any boundaries between community councils should be adjusted, and to answer questions.  ​​



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