An Anchorage land bank has set its sights on more forested wetlands for subdivision development in Girdwood, this time along a bluff it calls “Orca Mountain View”.
The city’s Heritage Land Bank, which owns most of the valley’s undeveloped land, wants to plat three tracts totalling nearly 70 acres along Alyeska Highway north of Ruane Road. The majority of that land, between Alyeska Highway and Glacier Creek, would be set aside as open space leaving 13.5 acres “suitable for residential development”, according to HLB.
Local officials, meanwhile, hope they can work in a “public/nonprofit partnership” with HLB to build affordable housing on the nearly half-mile long strip of forest…