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Assembly Adopts Election Code Rewrite Ordinance 2025-14, March 3, 2025

Assembly Adopts Election Code Rewrite Ordinance 2025-14, March 3, 2025

On Monday, March 3, 2025, the Assembly adopted Ordinance 2025-14am An Ordinance Amending the City and Borough Title 29 Code Relating to Elections Processes and Procedures.

In 2024, the Clerk’s Office received four petitions from citizens trying to engage in direct democracy. About 15% of the signatures initially turned in were rejected. Of those, more than half were rejected due to the strict, and outdated, requirements laid out in 29.10.090 about what is an ‘adequate’ address. This section of code was written before Clerk staff had real-time access to the State Division of Elections Voter Database (VREMS) which allows staff to quickly verify if a person is a Juneau resident who is eligible to sign a petition.

This led Clerk staff to propose Ordinance 2025-14, with the help of the Law Department. This ordinance removed many technical or procedural actions throughout the entire election code and placed them into Rules of Procedure, which will allow election staff to better adapt to changing technologies. It also requires that the Rules of Procedure be available to the public online. This ordinance removed redundancies, rewrote complex language, and updated terminology definitions to make the code more readable by the public.

Additionally, this ordinance provides some minor changes in timing, primarily when ballots are to be mailed out.

The ordinance was introduced at the February 3, 2025 Assembly meeting, discussed in greater detail and amended during the February 24, 2025 Assembly Committee of the Whole meeting. Public hearing and Assembly adopted took place during the March 3, 2025 meeting and the ordinance effective date is April 2, 2025.

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For additional information, please contact the CBJ Municipal Clerk’s Office at (907) 586-5278 or [email protected].

March 14th, 2025|

Regular Planning Commission meets March 25, 2025. Here’s how to weigh in.

The Regular Planning Commission meets Tuesday, March 25, 2025, at 6:00 p.m. in the Assembly Chambers. This meeting will be a hybrid meeting held both in person and via Zoom Webinar link, and will be to discuss a new dog grooming salon, a new dental clinic, and a rewrite of the Comprehensive Plan.

This hybrid meeting will be held in person and by remote participation. Join the virtual meeting online at https://juneau.zoom.us/j/85421744892 or call: 1-346-248-7799 or 1-669-900-6833 or 1-253-215-8782 or 1-312-626-6799 or 1-929-436-2866 or 1-301-715-8592 and enter Webinar ID: 854 2174 4892. If you’re giving public comment while participating virtually, you shall state your name and place of residence before beginning your testimony and will be asked to stay on the line after your testimony to answer any questions from the Commission. For more information about the procedure, contact the Community Development Department at 907-586-0715.

The public is encouraged to submit written comments to [email protected] by 12 noon, March 21, 2025, or testify at the meeting. Read the Planning Commission Meeting agenda at https://juneau-ak.municodemeetings.com.

Conditional Use Permit for a Dog Grooming Salon at 2217 Dunn Street (USE20250006)

Conditional Use permit for a Dog Grooming Salon at 2217 Dunn Street in a LC zone.

Conditional Use Permit for Dental Clinic at 3063 Vintage Blvd. (USE20250007)

Conditional Use Permit for a three-story, 19,635 square foot dental clinic located at 3063 Vintage Boulevard (next to Safeway).

Comprehensive Plan Rewrite (AME20250002)

A rewrite of the Juneau Comprehensive Plan.

March 10th, 2025|

Hank Harmon Public Range annual board meeting scheduled for March 19

The Hank Harmon Public Range Board will hold its annual meeting on Wednesday, March 19 at 6:30 p.m. The meeting will take place in person at the Juneau Hunter Education Shooting Complex at 5670 Montana Creek Road. (On the right side of the road, go through the yellow gate to the building on the immediate right and enter through the glass door.)

Members of the public are welcome and encouraged to attend. Public comment and questions will be taken at the beginning of the meeting and limited to three minutes per person.

If you have any concerns you would like the board to address, please send them to [email protected].

Please keep in mind that in accordance with range bylaws, only paid and participating members of at least 60 days may vote at the annual meeting (Article V, Section 1).

For questions, please contact the Hank Harmon Public Range Board at [email protected].

March 5th, 2025|

Changes to DPAC hours and operations on March 8, 9, 11

The Dimond Park Aquatic Center (DPAC) will see temporary changes to hours and operations on the following days:

On Saturday, March 8, the pool will close to the public at 2:30 p.m. for a Glacier Swim Club event.
On Sunday, March 9, capacity will be capped at 80 patrons due to staffing shortages.
On Tuesday, March 11, DPAC’s weekly maintenance closure will be extended in order to complete work on the scoreboard above the lap pool. The pool area will be closed from 8 – 11 a.m. Other areas remain open and Chair Yoga will meet as scheduled in the events room.

All other hours and operations are expected to continue as normal.

For complete DPAC hours and events, see the full calendar at juneaupools.org.

March 4th, 2025|

Regular Planning Commission meets March 11, 2025. Here’s how to weigh in.

The Regular Planning Commission meets Tuesday, March 11, 2025, at 6:00 p.m. in the Assembly Chambers. This meeting will be a hybrid meeting held both in person and via Zoom Webinar link, and will be to discuss a site plan modification for a fire turnaround relocation on Mendenhall Loop road, the use of two existing church rooms to serve as a preschool for children aged 3-5 years, and a preliminary plan for an alternative residential subdivision.

This hybrid meeting will be held in person and by remote participation. Join the virtual meeting online at https://juneau.zoom.us/j/85421744892 or call: 1-346-248-7799 or 1-669-900-6833 or 1-253-215-8782 or 1-312-626-6799 or 1-929-436-2866 or 1-301-715-8592 and enter Webinar ID: 854 2174 4892. If you’re giving public comment while participating virtually, you shall state your name and place of residence before beginning your testimony and will be asked to stay on the line after your testimony to answer any questions from the Commission. For more information about the procedure, contact the Community Development Department at 907-586-0715.

The public is encouraged to submit written comments to [email protected] by 12 noon, March 7, 2025, or testify at the meeting. Read the Planning Commission Meeting agenda at https://juneau-ak.municodemeetings.com.

Conditional Use Permit for Site Plan Modification: Fire Turnaround Relocation (USE20250001)

Conditional Use permit for site plan modification for fire turnaround relocation on Mendenhall Loop Road.

Conditional Use Permit for a Preschool at St. Brendan’s Episcopal Church (USE20250002)

Conditional Use Permit for the use of two existing church rooms to serve as a preschool for children aged 3-5 years. Additionally, these rooms can be utilized for Family Promise’s rotational sheltering program, various school services independent of church activities, and when needed, as emergency sheltering facilities for the Red Cross.

Preliminary Plan for Alternative Residential Subdivision at 4670 Glacier Hwy (ARP2024 0001)

Alternative Residential Subdivision for developing up to 76 dwelling units on 5.1 acres at 4670 Glacier Highway.

March 3rd, 2025|