On Tuesday night, the Borough Assembly voted to rehear the former Planning Commission’s decision to issue a Conditional Use Permit to Southeast Road Builders for resource extraction at their site near the ferry terminal and for many good reasons.

The implications of this CUP are broad. This CUP paves the way for a major resource extraction/export hub which affects the community at large from valuable Chilkoot public resources and assets, down through the entire Chilkoot/Lutak…