Southeast Alaska Backcountry Adventures is going ahead with plans to use a 26 Mile Haines Highway site as a heliport, relying on a section of Haines Borough code the company says exempts it from acquiring a conditional use permit to stage heli-skiing tours from the site, according to Mayor Stephanie Scott.
Scott said SEABA co-owner Scott Sundberg told her Tuesday that SEABA notified borough manager Mark Earnest and a borough attorney in October that…