Amending Title 21 to reflect updated Municipality of Anchorage Standard Specifications
| Updated landscape inspection content and timeline in the Municipality of Anchorage Standard Specification (M.A.S.S.) guidelines.
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| The assembly Adopted AO 2025-125 at the December 2, 205 Assembly Meeting.
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Allowing flexibility for shelter units as temporary uses
| Amending Anchorage Municipal Code Chapters 21.05 and 21.15 to make shelter units allowable structures for developing particular land uses, to increase the time allowance for temporary uses developed with shelter units, and waiving planning and zoning commission review.
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| The Assembly Adopted AO 2025-128 at the November 18, 2025 Assembly Meeting.
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Non-conformities code
| Allow more flexibility for the reconstruction or rehabilitation of nonconforming structures.
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| The Assembly Adopted AO 2025-94 at the October 21, 2025 Assembly meeting.
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Manufactured and modular housing ordinance, renamed to "Relocatable Dwelling Units"
| Simplify standards related to the construction of manufactured housing, modular housing, and where they may be sited.
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| The Assembly Adopted AO 2025-112 at the October 21, 2025 Assembly meeting.
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Updating use allowances in the GC-10 zone
| This text amendment will allow office uses and some retail uses in the gC-10 district. Currently, most of these uses are prohibited. The gC-10 district is only three tracts of land, all of which are located on the south side of the Alyeska Highway between Timberline Drive and the bridge over Glacier Creek.
| | The Assembly Adopted AO 2025-104 at the October 7, 2025 Assembly meeting.
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Fee schedule update
| Update fees and provide reduced fees for certain procedures.
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AdoptedAO 2025-87 at the August 12, 2025 Assembly meeting.
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Amending code to establish tax incentive for farming and agriculture activities and permitting a broader range of agricultural uses.
| Expanding the "Hobby Farm" and "Commercial Horticulture" uses into all residential and some commercial districts. Proposed by Member Martinez.
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Adopted AO 2025-62(S). The final version of AO 2025-62(S) removed changes to Title 21.
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Defining and regulating bee colonies in zoning code
| The proposed ordinance would make a minor change to Title 21 that would correct its language to regulate actual bee colonies, rather than the structures that they are housed in. Proposed by Member Silvers.
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Adopted at the June 24, 2025 Assembly meeting.
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Site Access (Driveways, walkways, building frontages, and landscaping)
| Fix site access standards from AO 2022-80(S) and AO 2023-50
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AO 2025-64(AA) was Adopted with two amendments at the
June 10, 2025 Assembly meeting.
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Cost threshold that triggers site plan review for parks projects
| Increase the threshold at which parks projects are subject to additional reviews from $500,000 project cost to $750,000 project cost.
| | AO 2025-53 Adopted with slight amendments at the
May 20, 2025 Assembly meeting.
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Changes to the appeals process
| Addresses fees and the process for appeals to Municipal actions.
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Adopted at the April 22, 2025 Assembly meeting.
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Tax incentives for workforce and Affordable housing
| Creating tax incentives for multifamily housing.
| | Adopted at the April 22, 2025 Assembly meeting.
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New rezone processes
| Allowing more types of rezone processes in order to facilitate implementing the Comprehensive Plan.
| | Adopted at the April 22, 2025 Assembly meeting.
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B-3 Updates
| Allow more flexibility for all uses in the B-3 zone.
| | Adopted at the April 22, 2025 Assembly meeting.
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Putrescible waste
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Expand public nuisance laws to regulate putrescible waste and provide minimum standards for the proper keeping of large domestic animals in Chugiak-Eagle River.
| | Adopted at the April 22, 2025 Assembly meeting.
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Long Range Transportation Strategy
| Provide policy guidance on transportation for the Municipality of Anchorage.
| | Adopted with guidance to fix typographical errors on April 16, 2025.
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Requiring conditional use for payday loans and pawnshops in certain districts
| Change use regulations for certain types of financial instutions (Assembly sponsored).
| | Adopted April 16, 2025
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Correcting code for 3 & 4 dwelling development in R-2 Zones, Heights in R2 Zones
| Fix R-2 height limit rules. Standardize 30' height limit in R-2A, R-2D, & R-2M zones.
| | Adopted with amendments
April 16, 2025
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Design Standards Moratorium
| Suspend certain design standards in 21.07.110C, D, & E, and 21.07.060F (for multifamily) until 2028.
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Adopted with amendments February 11, 2025.
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Allowing connexes as food and beverage kiosks
| Amends the zoning code to allow connexes to be used as food and
beverage kiosks. Currently, the zoning code requires kiosks to be on trailers with wheels. This ordinance will bring the zoning code into parity with the health code (Title 16) and the building code (Title 23), which have allowed connexes for this purpose since adoption of AO 2019-27.
| | Adopted February 11, 2025.
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Allowing more flexibility in B-3 zoning districts
| Simplifies standards for residential development in the B-3 district.
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| Adopted January 7, 2024.
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Special Limitations
| Prohibits the application for, or recommendation of, special limitations in approving an amendment to the zoning map (rezone).
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| Adopted December 17, 2024.
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Planned Unit Developments (PUDs)
| Simplifies the process for creating a PUD
| | Adopted October 8, 2024.
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HOME ordinance
| Allowed duplexes as permitted uses in nearly all residential zones in the Anchorage Bowl.
| | Adopted June 25, 2024.
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3/4plex Reform
| Simplified restrictions on 3 and 4 plex construction.
| | Adopted December 19, 2023.
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ADU Reform
| Simplified the requirements for adding an Accessory Dwelling Unit (ADU) to a property, including removal of special design rules, increasing size limits, and allowing ADUs in nearly all zones and on any type of housing in the Anchorage Bowl.
| | Adopted January 10, 2023.
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Parking Reform
| Eliminated vehicle storage mandates on private property (minimum parking requirements)
| | Adopted November 22, 2022.
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