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#22-28 - Authorizing a Lease with Alaska Guide Company, LLC for 2581 Richardson Highway, a Portion of USS 439 Owned by the City of Valdez
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SUBMITTED BY: Nicole LeRoy, Planner
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Approve Resolution #22-28 authorizing a lease with Alaska Guide Company, LLC for 2581 Richardson Highway, a portion of USS 439 owned by the City of Valdez, with conditions.
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SUMMARY STATEMENT:
Planning Department staff received the attached lease application from Alaska Guide Company for use of 2581 Richardson Highway for development and operation of a tourism/recreation guiding business. Uses requested in the application narrative include a Onewheel and mountain biking course, shop for working on gear/equipment repairs, ropes course, zipline course, rock climbing and ice climbing wall, climbing and obstacle features, swings, store front and main office, gear storage, and employee housing. The applicant Mr. Zach Sheldon, owner and operator of Alaska Guide Company, has indicated this development would occur in phases throughout the lease term, and that he may pursue employee housing as an employee campground or employee dry cabins initially. He also stated in his application narrative that Alaska Guide Company would be interested in operating a helicopter landing pad at the location in the future. Alaska Guide Company originally approached staff to request to purchase the property. However, USS 439 Old Town is identified in the 2005 Property Management Policies and Procedures as lands to be leased only (p iv.)
Lease Term
Alaska Guide Company has requested a lease term of ten years. The 2005 Property Management Policies and Procedures reads, "leases of City land should not be for greater than five years, unless it is in the public interest for the City to enter into a longer-term lease." VMC 4.08.130 states the term of lease should, "depend on the des...
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