The Haines Borough Planning Commission last week backed off a plan to raise a 30-foot height restriction after hearing from firefighters that they couldn’t fight a blaze in a three-story building.
Instead, the commission will recommend lowering the height restrictions along Lutak and Mud Bay roads and in General Use zones to match the 30-foot limit throughout the borough.
A proposed ordinance discussed at the Feb. 9 meeting would have increased building height limits to…
