The Haines Borough’s land use rules are internally conflicted and too often arbitrarily applied. This can be remedied with some simple changes to our code: (1) the most protective rule should be applied. The massive, new development on Lutak Road, which earned a “cease and desist letter” for less than a week, is being characterized as “heavy industrial” rather than “resource extraction.” The heavy industrial category allows gravel storage and trucking as a use-by-right; the…