The final draft of the Haines Borough’s $41,300 noise study is in, but it’s still unclear if or how the results will translate into law or policy.
Though the noise study was authorized in February 2015, discussion of its potential costs and benefits dated to March 2014, when the assembly voted to approve a conditional use permit for construction of a heliport near 26 Mile Haines Highway by a sister company of Southeast Alaska Backcountry…