The Parks and Recreation Advisory Committee brainstormed ideas to make beach bonfires safer, backtracking on an earlier position to leave development of Chilkat River beaches alone.

Assembly member Margaret Friedenauer said about six months ago, the committee took no action on her request for a better fire area on the beach along Mud Bay Road.

“We were trying to discourage all fires,” said committee member Lori Lapeyri Smith. “We have morphed into ‘They’re going to…