Wrangell’s planning and zoning commission met last Thursday evening to review and approve of the rezoning of several lots owned by Armstrong Rents, LLC.
Robert Armstrong came before the commission to give some history on the lots, which are located on a stretch of land between Front Street and Church Street to the west and east, and Episcopal Avenue and Case Avenue to the north and south. These lots came into his family’s possession over many years, Armstrong said, when his father first came to Wrangell. “Curley” Armstrong came to Alaska on May 7, 1927, the same day that Charles Lindbergh landed his plane in France after his historic transatlantic flight. He began buying property in Wrangell after serving in WWII. The lots in question came to be known as “Curleyville.”
There are now several buildings on this stretch of property, some of which sit across multiple lot lines. Armstrong wants the lots rezoned and combined, from 10 lots to five, to have each building sit on its own lot. This would make development of the area easier, he said, and be a more efficient use of the land.
“So you can see I got lots of lot lines. If anything happened, or I wanted to develop it, you guys would be here for a year trying to figure out the motion for it,” Armstrong said.
There was some brief discussion among the commissioners, but the rezoning was approved of unanimously.
During the meeting, the commissioners also approved of a conditional use permit for the creation of a borrow pit, at the request of SEARHC. This pit will be located on Lot 1, Health Care Subdivision III. Rock will be blasted from this area to assist in the construction of the new hospital next to the AICS clinic.
They also discussed a rezoning of land owned by the Presbyterian church. The church wanted to carve off a slice of property where a neighbor had a parking area. They want to give this land to the neighbor’s property.
Other items covered in the meeting included the combining of smaller lots on Etolin Avenue into larger lots, and a land swap agreement between the U.S. Forest Service and the Alaska Mental Health Trust.
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