Planning and Zoning approves preliminary replot for tidelands

The borough planning and zoning commission held a public hearing for a preliminary plat review March 13.

The proposed re-plat would combine Dave Svendsen’s previously existing portions of tidelands – currently designated Lot 1 and Lot 2 — near Wrangell’s Inner Harbor into a single 20,366 square-foot lot designated as Lot 1A. In addition to combining the two lots, the replot will add a 1,955 square-foot triangle shaped piece of previously unsubdivided tidelands.

Svendsen has been in the process of obtaining the re-plat since at least January, and has received past approvals from Planning and Zo...