Vision: Guiding Girdwood Land Use: Creating a framework for the future of Girdwood
The mission of Imagine! Girdwood is to fund and complete a transparent, inclusive rewrite of the Girdwood Comprehensive Plan to guide Girdwood land use in an orderly and understandable process that is respectful of all views
Regular public meetings are held 4th Wednesday of each month - more details
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4/1/2024 Cover image and plan illustrations
The Girdwood Comprehensive Plan is a reflection of how Girdwoodians see their community and environment.
Help us make this literally true by contributing photos or artwork that reflect how you see Girdwood - it's physical environment, connections, culture, people, or vibe - by contributing images that will be used to illustrate the plan.
One image will be selected for pride-of-place on cover and several for each section title page, and others throughout the text.
3/31/2024 Public Comments Closing at Midnight Tonight
Don't forget to make your Public Comments before the end of the day.
Check the Public Review Draft page for the plan and comment form.
3/27/2024 Four days left to send your Public Comments on the Draft Plan
The Public Comment period closes at midnight Alaska time on Sunday March 31st. The draft plan and Public Comment form are on the Public Review Draft tab, and hard copies of the draft plan are available at Girdwood Library.
Here's a 2 minute video on how to use the Public Comment form.
2/28/2024 The Public Review Draft of the Girdwood Comprehensive Plan was released at this evening's meeting. Public Comments are open through March 31st.
The draft plan and comment link is available at the Public Review Draft tab at the top of the page.
* Printed copies now available for review at Girdwood Library *
2/20/2024 Project Schedule Update
With the publication of the community review draft next week, this project is firmly into its final phase. There are two stages left:
Girdwood community review: local presentations, public comment, update to a final draft based on public comment, local recommendation, then submit the final draft plan to the Municipality.
Formal MOA review and adoption: MOA departmental review, Planning and Zoning Commission review & recommendation, and finally Assembly adoption of the Girdwood Comprehensive Plan.
The schedule is shown below with expected dates, where available.
12/17/2023 Pre-Draft Land Use Maps - Response to Public Comments
The document below includes responses to distilled Public Comments on the pre-draft Land Use maps presented in October. This will be a discussion topic at the Dec-20 regular meeting.
Note this is a draft document, subject to revision.
Distilled Comments Table Responses - 12.13.2023.pdfMeeting Materials from October 11, 2023 Community Open House
** The comment period on the Land Use Plan Maps closed on Sunday November 5, 2023 **
** FIND THE NEW DRAFT LAND USE MAP HERE: Public Review Draft **
PublicMeeting_Presentation_10.25.2023.pdfPresentation slides
Presentation video (re-recorded at Oct-25 regular meeting)
Scenario A.pdfScenario B.pdfGirdwood1995FLUD.pdfCurrent Land Use Map from the 1995 plan
PDLUM_PublicComment_Packet_Final.pdfFinal Public Comment Packet
05/16/2023 The 2005 Girdwood Airport Master Plan and Environmental Assessment
Since there is much interest in potential development at Girdwood Airport, we have a posted a copy of the 2005 Girdwood Airport Master Plan and the related Girdwood Airport Environmental Assessment.
5/10/2023 In-Person Land Use Map Exercise
6-8p Girdwood Community Center
Led by Holly Spoth-Torres, Huddle AK
Led by Holly Spoth-Torres, Huddle AK
HOMEWORK: Become familiar with the following tools to make for better participation in Wednesday's meeting
1) Land Use Category Definitions from the 1995 Girdwood Area Plan Here
2) The 1995 Land Use Plan Map in an online format:
https://muniorg.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c71b84ca1734fefb7762fc9420191e2
These resources help illustrate Girdwood’s existing land use map and categories, we will discuss how to use them and what they mean.
We are also going to get into how we are going to work together to develop the FUTURE categories and map.
It will be helpful if people can start familiarizing themselves with the tools – read the definitions, click around the map, etc.
The intent is that AFTER the workshop on April 26th, people can continue to explore these tools AND ALSO begin thinking about a FUTURE land use map that implements your Vision, Goals, and Policy document.
The example Land Use Map that was used during the workshop to spark discussions: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1G6C-XiNLb4ag7RAfmz-r1okoumdEPMR5/view?usp=share_link
11/10/2022 Girdwood Inc. and Imagine! Girdwood awarded ARPA funding
At their November 9th meeting, the Anchorage Assembly granted $140,000 to Girdwood Inc. & Imagine! Girdwood to complete a full update of the 1995 Girdwood Area Plan. The update project started in 2018 and was split into 5 phases, the first 3 of which have been completed.
Phase 1 included a community survey, town hall and report on community attitudes and values. *COMPLETE*
Phase 2 developed these further into a set of community vision and goals. *COMPLETE*
Phase 3 produced an existing conditions inventory, land suitability analysis and housing demand forecast. *COMPLETE*
Phases 4 & 5 will run in parallel:
Phase 4 will work with the community through a Town Hall and online mapping tools to update the Land Use Map for Girdwood Valley.
Phase 5 will complete other technical studies, write the high-level implementation plan and produce the public draft of the full plan.
5/1/2022 Existing Conditions Report *UPDATED 12.12.22*
Existing Conditions, Land Suitability and Housing Forecast - Updated
9/22/2021 Existing Conditions Report *DRAFT*
Existing Conditions, Land Suitability and Housing Forecast - Draft
11/10/2020 Imagine! Girdwood Virtual Town Hall
The virtual public meeting was held on November 10th 2020.