Earlier this year, Rob Goldberg stepped down as longtime chair of Haines Borough Planning Commission to allow for new leadership in 2019.

Past and present commissioners define Goldberg’s legacy as even keeled, non-partisan and open minded.

“I think most people in Haines like Rob Goldberg,” former chair Jim Stanford said this week. “He has this phenomenal curiosity to study issues and he fights like crazy to make issues non-political, to just look at the facts.”