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The Anchorage Assembly approved a measure that could be a step toward reviving the controversial Holtan Hills housing project in Girdwood, though Mayor Dave Bronson and Assembly members quarreled over how it would be funded. The mayor vetoed the measure several days later, but the Assembly can resurrect it with a veto override vote.
The measure provides $119,000 to hire a real estate consultant “to protect” the interest of the municipality’s Heritage Land Bank in the Holtan Hills land development deal, according to the item approved this week.
A number of residents in the ski resort town of Girdwood are working on new ideas to develop affordable housing after they successfully fought this month to stop a huge housing development led by the Municipality of Anchorage and a private developer. A deal between Anchorage land developer Connie Yoshimura and the city’s Heritage Land Bank, Holtan Hills would have been the