Anchorage Assembly members passed an ordinance on Tuesdayt hat allows for duplexes to be built across the Anchorage Bowl.
The ordinance also allows for two detached single-family units on the same lot to count as one duplex in code. Before the Assembly approved the changes, a little over 40 percent of residential lots, typically categorized as low-density, prohibited the building of duplexes. Teacher Scott Maxwell said there is a “dire lack of housing stock” in Anchorage. He said he spent three months homeless last summer before he was able to find a one-bedroom apartment in downtown’s South Addition neighborhood.
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