Good evening, and welcome to the municipality of Anchorage Zoning Board of Examiners and Appeals.

Will the Secretary please call the role?

Dave Hale?

Here.

Ellen McKay?

Here.

Andrew Romerdal?

Here.

Brian Bennett.

Here.

Craig Bennett.

Here.

Jonathan Lane.

Here.

Jason Norris.

Here.

You have a quorum.

Thank you.

Next item of business was minutes.

We don't have any for this meeting.

And special order of business is next.

Are there any disclosures?

Madam Chair, having been absent for the last couple of meetings, I'll accuse myself from any resolutions voted on today.

I'm not sure that there are any, but there are.

So that doesn't make any difference in it.

And the next item is an item that was laid on the table.

So will the staff please present this item.

Yes, thank you, Adam Chair.

So there the planning department has received an appeal of a director's interpretation memo.

So that interpretation memo, uh it looked at uh the sale of hay as it's associated with large domestic animal facilities.

The director's interpretation said it did not fall uh like it it did not fall under the the sale of hay did not fall under commercial activity permitted as an with a large domestic animal facility.

Uh the planning department then has received an appeal of that decision, and this appeal is scheduled for the September 11th uh ZEBA meeting.

It will be case 2025-0104.

Um, so there's nothing for that specific case yet that will come uh as usual at the September meeting.

So it's before the board tonight is a question of notice for that case.

Uh the appellant in case 2025-0104 has requested the planning department to notify all LDAFs or large domestic animal facilities on residential land of the appeal hearing.

And so we're requesting uh the Zeba board to rule on whether or not the planning department should make that additional notification.

The requirement in code is for the planning department to notify all properties within a 500 foot radius of the property.

So we will still provide that notice no matter what.

Code says that Zeba may prescribe rules of procedure for additional notification in cases where a decision of the board would have a substantial effect on the surrounding neighborhood.

Uh so this memo describing it asks uh the board to consider effects on neighbors of the appellant.

Uh the board should contemplate whether the decision for notice uh uh would have a substantial effect on neighbors of Alaska Hand Feed and other LDAFs.

It's not whether this interpretation will have a substantial effect on LDAFs and property owners operating them, it's whether it would have a substantial effect on the surrounding neighborhood.

Um the decision ZBA makes tonight is not appealable.

And then the back uh the back side of this this memorandum just summarizes actions the board may take tonight.

So you could uh direct the planning department to uh to make no additional notice.

We would still notify property owners within that 500 foot radius as usual, or you could direct us to increase the size of the notification area.

You could uh you could do as the appellant has you could direct the planning department to follow through on the appellant's request, which is to notify all large domestic animal facilities on residential property within the municipality or some combination, and then we put uh examples of what forms of additional notifications.

So we could um try to highlight it on the planning department's website.

Um we could try to get uh a mailing list.

Um we noted an email list may be available for license to large domestic animal facilities.

It would not be for property owners.

Uh a few other things just for procedures.

So you may ask questions of staff uh that I'll try to answer as best I can.

And you may also ask questions of the appellate if they're here.

There's there's no like presentation time for them to to speak before you.

It's just if they are here, you can call them forward to ask questions, is all.

So that's the end of what I wanted to try to summarize for the board, and I'm available if you have questions to help you make your decision.

Are there any questions of staff?

Yes.