People staying in yurts and wall tents can live there as long as they want, even though the Haines Borough Planning Commission would have it otherwise.

The Haines Borough Assembly Aug. 27 struck down the planning commission’s recommendation to add yurts, recreational vehicles and wall tents to the borough code’s definition of “temporary use dwellings,” a change that would have limited habitation of those structures to 18 months in the townsite.

The assembly voted 5-1…