The Alaska Supreme Court held that the Kenai Peninsula Borough Planning Commission could deny a gravel-pit permit when listed conditions could not adequately minimize noise and visual impacts.
The Alaska Supreme Court held that pre-partnership property stays outside domestic-partnership division and extended marital-property tracing rules to unmarried partners.
The supreme court held that the superior court could specify a reasonable width because the 1966 instrument did not do so. When an easement grant is silent, a court may supply terms reasonably necessary for enjoyment of the right. Because the landowners did not show that 60 feet was unreasonable or unnecessary, selecting that width was not an abuse of discretion. The central error concerned location, not width.
The Alaska Supreme Court held that housing needed to recruit and keep hospital staff near Norton Sound Health’s Nome hospital qualifies for the hospital-purpose property-tax exemption.