CITY OF HOMER

HOMER, ALASKA

                                                                                                        Mayor / City Council

RESOLUTION 05-52

 

A RESOLUTION OF THE CITY COUNCIL PROVIDING COMMENTS AND RECOMMENDATIONS TO THE KENAI PENINSULA BOROUGH ASSEMBLY REGARDING THE DRAFT BOROUGH COMPREHENSIVE PLAN.

 

WHEREAS, The Kenai Peninsula Borough is undertaking a process to update the 1992 Kenai Peninsula Borough Comprehensive Plan; and

 

WHEREAS, the Borough has prepared a final draft 2005 Kenai Peninsula Borough Comprehensive Plan; and

 

WHEREAS, the City of Homer was requested to comment on the draft comprehensive plan; and

 

WHEREAS, Borough planning staff provided an overview of the draft comprehensive plan to the City Council on April 11, 2005, and

 

WHEREAS, the City of Homer Advisory Planning Commission reviewed the draft plan and submitted comments to the Homer City Council via Memorandum 05-76; and

 

WHEREAS, the Homer City Council reviewed and considered the draft 2005 Kenai Peninsula Borough Comprehensive Plan and the recommendations of the Homer Advisory Planning Commission at its regular meeting on April 25th, 2005.

 

NOW THEREFORE BE IT RESOLVED, that the City Council hereby submits the following list of comments and recommendations to the Kenai Peninsula Borough Assembly for consideration and inclusion in the final plan:

 

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·        Comprehensive plans of the incorporated cities

 

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Unlike zoning, the Borough has not delegated planning powers to the incorporated cities.  The cities create and adopt individual comprehensive plans, which set the framework for decisions and policies within the cities.  These plans must be adopted by the Borough.  The Cities of Homer, Soldotna, Seward, Seldovia and Kenai have adopted comprehensive plans.  These plans are updated from time to time, by the individual city.  After adoption by the City they are forwarded to the Borough for adoption by ordinance.  After adoption by ordinance, they should be considered as additional elements or chapters to the boroughwide plan. 

 

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·        Homer Kayak Festival

 

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The Alaska Islands and Ocean Visitor Center is a state-of-the-art interpretive, education, and research facility based on a partnership between the Kachemak Bay National Estuarine Research Reserve and the Alaska Maritime National Wildlife Refuge.  The facility and its programs are dedicated to the understanding and conservation of the marine environment through research, monitoring, education, and outreach.  In its first year of operation (2004), the Visitor Center hosted more than 75,000 guests.

 

 

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Research and educational facilities including the expansion of the local Kenai Peninsula Campus of the University of Alaska, the Islands and Ocean complex,  and the Kachemak Bay Estuarine Research Reserve  Alaska Islands and Ocean Visitor Center which houses the Kachemak Bay National Estuarine Research Reserve and the Alaska Maritime National Wildlife Refuge, the Pratt Museum, and the Center for Alaskan Coastal Studies.

 

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·        Lake Clark National Park and Preserve - offices

·        Kachemak Bay State Park and State Wilderness Park

 

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            Homer Ice Skating rink is complete and should be changed to an X

 

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Popular outdoor activities include snow machining, downhill and cross-country skiing, dog sledding, all terrain vehicle riding, ice fishing, snowshoe hiking, and ice skating, climbing, hiking, kayaking,  and wildlife viewing.

 

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The incorporated cities of the borough exercise their zoning powers to direct land use development within their boundaries, as well as offer services such as police protection and the provision of public utilities.  Land use development immediately adjacent to the incorporated cities has an impact on the neighboring city. Areas contiguous to the incorporated cities are experiencing growth and development.  The borough and the cities should work together to address development in these areas in order to facilitate harmonious growth and minimize negative impacts to neighboring properties.

 

PASSED AND ADOPTED BY THE CITY COUNCIL OF HOMER, ALASKA, this ____ day of ________________, 2005.

 

 

CITY OF HOMER

 

 

 

JAMES C. HORNADAY, MAYOR

 

 

ATTEST:

 

 

 

MARY L. CALHOUN, CMC, CITY CLERK