Meeting attendees burst out in applause after borough Mayor Edna DeVries vetoed the ordinance, calling it “bad public policy.”
After a number of rounds of amendments, the Assembly voted to pass the measure that would increase the amount of allowable earth material extraction without a permit from 2,000 cubic yards to 10,000. Assembly members Mokie Tew, Ron Bernier, Rob Yundt, and Dmitri Fonov all voted in favor of its passage, while members Stephanie Nowers, Dee McKee, and Tim Hale strongly opposed the measure.
“I still just felt like this is not going to be good for the Mat-Su Borough,” DeVries said. “As both mayor of Palmer and now as mayor of the Mat-Su Borough, my heart really is to form communities, and I could just see that it was — in my opinion — that it was bad public policy and just was tearing our community apart.”
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