What’s a yurt? Should yurts be allowed in town? The Haines Borough Government Affairs and Services (GAS) Committee recommended a definition and zoning code amendment to the borough planning commission on Tuesday.
The committee’s proposal is to allow yurts in the townsite as a use-by-right in the rural residential and rural mixed use zones but to ban them in all other areas of the townsite. The structures still would be allowed in the Mud Bay,