Assemblyman Kevin Cross has called a community meeting for Thursday, July 6, at 6:30 pm to discuss housing challenges of Chugiak-Eagle River and the entire Anchorage bowl.
The meeting is about rezoning all of Anchorage, including Eagle River as far as the Knik Bridge, to add multifamily housing of all types, as well as tiny homes and trailers on any residential lots. People who live in single-family neighborhoods could find a multi-story apartment going up next to them.
The broad zoning change would wipe all of Title 21, the current residential zoning law, and would create two zones — business and residential that would apply to the entire municipality. Service area and non-service area zones would be the new zones — not residential and commercial. Pot shops could pop up, as well as homeless shelters may come into Eagle River, something the community has fought.
Advocates say that this new zoning will help the homeless. Opponents say this change will impact their property values. Eagle River residents have already been activated with an exit movement to vote on leaving the Anchorage municipality and this ordinance could give that effort an added push.
The meeting is in Room 170 at the Eagle River Library at Town Center on 12001 Business Loop Blvd, near the Eagle River Chamber of Commerce.
