South Anchorage Concerned Coalition, Inc. v. Municipality of Anchorage Board of Adjustment

OPINION

I. INTRODUCTION

This appeal arises from opposition to a proposed residential development on a former gravel pit in south Anchorage. Approval of the development by the municipal planning authority was contingent on submission of evidence indicating that local groundwater supplies would not be contaminated by the development. Evidence to that effect was submitted by the developers and the plats were approved. The South Anchorage Concerned Coalition contests the integrity of that evidence generally and whether the agency was justified in relying on it to satisfy requirements that it pursue…