The Fairbanks North Star Borough’s Capital Improvement Program has been used to fund projects like the renovation of the Noel Wien Library and the John Weaver Memorial Skatepark.
The BLM-hosted meeting took place as part of a feedback process for the Draft Supplemental Environmental Impact Statement the bureau released in October, which found that the road will affect 66 tribal communities in the region.
In the borough, it is estimated that roughly 10,000 parcels of land, or 20 percent of the total, may have been illegally subdivided during their history of ownership.
A state agency that appealed a temporary moratorium on oil and gas leases on Alaska’s North Slope was denied by a federal judge Monday, preventing any development from starting in the immediate future.
The plan to demolish the Polaris building has faced speedbumps, including unforeseen contaminants like polychlorinated biphenyl, which has to be shipped out of state.