The Kodiak Daily Mirror reports the Kodiak Island Borough's planning and zoning commission has recommended that the full assembly deny the logging road.
A-1 Timber wants a road that enters and exits at Silver Beach, a popular recreation area. The company wants the road in order to fulfill its four-year, $15 million contract to harvest 100 million board feet of timber. It proposes the road to avoid replacing a bridge over a salmon stream and possibly causing disruptions.
Fifteen landowners testified this week against the road, saying it would disrupt a quiet neighborhood and the beach.
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