A petition circulating around town this week asked the Haines Borough to suspend design work on the harbor expansion project to allow for more public review and “an economic analysis of the project as currently described.”

Tresham Gregg, an artist and lifelong resident, was circulating the petition.

“The borough says it’s already too late, but that’s not acceptable to the general public. If the project is going to be upsetting a lot of people, it’s…