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CASE 14-001 Rezoning

By Darlene Breitkreutz

 

February 06, 2014
Thursday AM


I am totally in favor of rezoning the industrial area at Ketchikan's Copper Ridge Road. We also built in the area some 25 years ago and we KNEW there was an industrial zone nearby but we loved the area. Before P & T Construction, Lybrand had been on that property for years and he was burning, blasting, moving rock, and doing whatever he needed to do to make a living. People who have developed and built homes in the surrounding area did in fact know they were near an industrial area.

In any sense, I deal with the noise, the blasting, the dust and the traffic, BUT I also deal with the noise from floatplanes, cruise ships, helicopters, jets, foghorns, sirens, and now the added traffic from 3rd Avenue Bypass, but most noise has ceased by 5:00pm.

P & T Construction has been a viable business in that area for several years and they have provided services for many job sites. I can honestly say that if there is ever a person in need, the first people to step up to the plate and help are the owners of P & T Construction, Paul and Theresa Hamilton. They have helped raised thousands and thousands of dollars for many individuals dealing with illnesses or trauma, or whatever the case. They have been able to do this because they have had an active business and have afforded it. Even when business is slow they try to do what they can.

I hope that people can see that it really won't change anything, it ll be business as usual.

Darlene Breitkreutz
Ketchikan, Alaska

Case Number 14-001: The Rezoning of Residential land in town to Heavy Industrial and Unrestricted Commercial.

About: "Born and raised in Ketchikan, retired from City of Ketchikan"

Received February 04, 2014 - Published February 06, 2014

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