The Haines Borough Assembly approved a short-term access plan for Beach Road aimed at balancing residents’ desire to return home with the desire to secure FEMA funding for completion of a geotechnical study.
Up until last week, it had appeared that the borough would need to choose between expediting the process of restoring power and permanent road access to homes by excavating down to the original road, or allowing the state-funded geotechnical stability assessment of…