Perhaps the strangest thing about the “controversial” Holtan Hills development in Girdwood, which has now been the subject of months of furious opposition spearheaded by a group of Girdwood property owners, is how utterly ordinary the project really is. At its heart, plans simply call for taking a 60-acre area of municipal land long slated for development and working with a developer to divide it into lots, run utilities to the lots, and then sell the lots to local builders to build mixed-density housing. This basic process has occurred countless times in Anchorage and has resulted in nearly all the housing we live in today.