Haines Borough planning commissioners last week approved a variance for Haines Assisted Living’s addition, but said that continuing, after-the-fact variances were rendering the group meaningless.
“Why are we here if you can build whatever you want and then say, ‘oops,’ afterwards? Even if it’s an honest mistake, it still isn’t what code is and it makes this job kind of irrelevant at some point,” said commission member Donnie Turner.
“I don’t know how many times…
