The Haines Borough Planning Commission is struggling to craft some sort of compromise regarding the potential rezone of the Chilkat Lake Road area.

Several property owners in the Eagle Vista subdivision petitioned the borough requesting a rezone to rural residential after a proposed heliport project narrowly failed last winter. Now residents and landowners are divided on what sections, if any, should be zoned to rural residential or rural mixed use. The area currently is zoned general use.

The…