The Haines Borough Assembly voted 4-2 Tuesday to authorize manager Mark Earnest to negotiate with an upper valley church that wants to buy a two-acre parcel of borough land at the intersection of Haines Highway and Mosquito Lake Road.

Members Joanne Waterman and Greg Goodman were opposed.

The church’s lot would come from a five-acre piece the borough purchased there last year. The borough planning commission recommended against the sale, which was advocated by assembly…