In a survey of residents, a plan that would have preserved the historic homes got 13 fewer votes than the plan the city has chosen.
Assembly member Paul Kelly, center, asks a question during an Assembly committee meeting on Monday, Feb. 12, 2024.
The Juneau Assembly has asked city staff to move forward with a Telephone Hill redevelopment plan that would demolish the neighborhood’s historic homes and add more than 100 new housing units.with Juneau residents in the fall. Option C added the most new housing — 100 to 200 apartments in mid-rise buildings. Option D was the only plan that preserved some of the existing houses while adding apartments among them.
In an online survey, Juneau residents gave Option C just 13 more votes than D. But at an Assembly Committee of the Whole meeting Monday night, member Christine Woll said their decision was a response to Juneau’s housing crisis, not the survey. “Option C barely quote-unquote won the survey,” she said. “I think that’s a useful piece of information, but I think our decision should be based on what we think is best for the community based on what we know.”Telephone Hill’s remaining tenants leave their homes“The level of housing people are asking for, I think we can achieve that and allow people who are living in the area to remain in their homes if we proceed with, instead, Option D,” he said.
First Forty Feet’s Options C and D were the most popular Telephone Hill redevelopment models in a recent city survey. “We have to remember that if we leave the houses there, the people that are in them currently may not stay in them because they’ll go up to fair market value,” she said. “And after my tour there — there’s a house there that has some land. It’s a big house with a view. That house is going to go for $900,000.
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