Anchorage Zoning Change Sparks Outcry | Anchorage News

0:00It's September 10th. This is Anchorage News today, AI-powered stories from your city. I'm Cory with the story. So Anchorage's assembly made a change back in April of 2025, buried in a zoning update. They basically removed the longstanding rule that required property owners to be notified about zoning changes that could impact their land. This one little tweak in a table has opened the door for things like the Transit Supportive Development Overlay and its sequel, TS-D0-2, plus D. Missing middle housing opportunity overlay. Now the reasoning behind ditching the notification requirement? Apparently, it was too costly to mail out notices and they weren't getting much feedback anyway. The idea of just collecting email addresses from property owners for these updates? That wasn't even on the table, according to what I'm hearing. This move has folks and communities like Turn Again and Northstar pretty heated. They've already passed resolutions calling for this change to be reversed. It feels like a slap in the face to the property owners who are footing a big chunk of the

1:02city's bills. And get this, the assembly is actually taking testimony on the missing middle housing opportunity overlay on September 15th. They dropped this whole thing while most people were out enjoying the summer. If your property was already in the TS-D0 zone, guess what? It's now also in the MMH Hop Zone. It's a pretty wild situation when decisions that affect so many can be made with such little direct communication makes you wonder what else is being quietly slipped into the rulebook.