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Speaker 2:Well, good morning. Good morning. Hello, and welcome to Prom Corner. I'm your host, Wade Bryson, and Prom Corner is a community service of KINY. Purpose of the program is to swap and trade items non commercially and to discuss issues that affect community.
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Speaker 2:Alright. Give us a call. You know the number 5861805861800. Come and join me on air. You can always send me a text to that same number 586-1800.
Speaker 2:And then we do have emails and I have a couple today. Air@kinyradio.com. Got a call. Good morning. Welcome to Problem Corner.
Speaker 2:You're live and on the air. On Problem Corner.
Speaker 3:Hello? Hello. You're live
Speaker 2:and on the air.
Speaker 4:Hear you on the phone, but I could hear you on the radio. That's weird. Anyways, hey. Nice to hear you.
Speaker 2:Thanks.
Speaker 4:I've got this salon furniture. It's a salon hairdryer and a salon stylist chair, and I'm asking a $100 for it. I can be reached at (907) 209-0034. I really have a lot of sentimental value to it, but I'm going through a career change and that's what the price I'm willing to let it go and that's a great deal because I I spent a lot more money on both of those items.
Speaker 2:Oh sure 209-0034 is that correct?
Speaker 4:Yes.
Speaker 2:Excellent. Alright. Well, let's try and sell your salon furniture.
Speaker 4:And just to let you know, I still can't hear you on the phone, but I do have the radio in the kitchen and I can hear you there.
Speaker 2:Oh, okay. I'll have to work on that. Thank you.
Speaker 4:Alright. Thanks.
Speaker 2:Alright. I've got my volume up nice and loud. How about somebody else give me a shout, see if I can talk on the phone? It looks like everything should be lit up. Alright.
Speaker 2:586-1800. Good morning. Welcome to Problem Corner. You're live and on the air.
Speaker 5:Hey. Good morning, Wade.
Speaker 2:Morning, sir. How are doing?
Speaker 6:Hey. I'm looking for some tires. 20555R16. And if anybody has got some of my that number is (907) 209-2353.
Speaker 2:2353. And you're looking for a set of car tires?
Speaker 6:Yeah.
Speaker 2:Alright. Well, let me see if I can find you some tires.
Speaker 5:Have a good day.
Speaker 2:You too, bud. Alright. Gentleman's looking for tires. 20555RSixteens. If you have a set of those tires, 209-2353.
Speaker 2:If you have a set of 20555R16 tires or something close to that, 209-2353. Alright. Give me a call here. 5861805861800. You can call or text that number.
Speaker 2:And again, air@kinyradio.com will get an email. And I have a happy birthday email announcement to who is it for? Happy birthday brother from Leroy. So if you have a brother named Leroy and it's your birthday today, he's definitely saying happy birthday to you with love always and a whole bunch of emojis. Awesome.
Speaker 2:If you're, telling somebody happy birthday, if you could be so kind as to include their name, it will make it significantly easier to tell your birthday special person happy birthday. Five eight six one eight hundred. You can give me a call or text. Alright. Everybody's gonna wanna hear this.
Speaker 2:This is from Sonny. He is the public information officer with Alaska DOT. He has two items that he wants everyone to, he wants the listeners to know about. First, the Eagan Vanderbilt Intersection project is nearing completion. We'd like to welcome the chance to walk through the upgraded intersection, how the upgraded intersection will operate since it will be a change for Juno drivers.
Speaker 2:We recently released the educational video on Facebook. A whole bunch of backslash. Go to Facebook, Google Alaska DOT or search alaskadot on Facebook. That'll get you there. Second, we'd like to talk about the twenty twenty six Juneau Glacial Lake outburst flooding.
Speaker 2:What state road and bridge closures will look like this year, the drone monitoring effects that they have in place. They'd love to come share more information on capital chat. Sunny, thank you for sending that information. So it sounds like state DOT is already, in that, emergency operation mode, preparing state roads that may need closures or state bridges that need closure. That's actually really good to know.
Speaker 2:And I did watch the video on how the new Vanderbilt Intersection is gonna take place. In a nutshell, if you are heading into town southbound on the outside lane closest to the ocean or the channel and you're going straight, you are never going to have to stop for a light again. They have two lanes that are gonna go past that intersection without any light, control whatsoever. So you just keep to get to keep on zooming. There you go.
Speaker 2:There is a, more pronounced separated by concrete barrier left turn lane to allow left turns at a controlled light for the outbound north side, or northern headed to the valley, lanes of the road. There will be a control light there, And that will be so that people can make left turns. So hopefully they're on radar sensors and so if there's nobody wanting to make a left turn, the light will just stay green. If you're headed outbound north, If you're headed southbound, there won't be a light for you. You'll just be able to keep going.
Speaker 2:I can see that improving traffic. One more light that you don't have to completely decelerate all the way to a stop and then accelerate, back up to the well, I was gonna say 55, but I know that ain't true. To the 60 or 65 miles an hour, how much gas does that burn up? How slows down everybody's trip by a minute? And we add all those minutes back up at the end of the year, you get a little bit of time.
Speaker 2:I think it's a good idea. I'm curious on how effective it is when they've completed it. Think of it as like a a lazy overpass that they didn't add a lot of dirt to. They're just like, well, we'll see. What does a smashed overpass look like?
Speaker 2:And then that's kind of what I saw, in watching that video. So going to work in the morning downtown, it'd be a little faster. Coming back out in the evening could potentially be a little faster. How much time do we save? How much gas do we save?
Speaker 2:Those become the questions. Alright. Give me a call here. 5861805861800. You can come and join me on air or send me a text.
Speaker 2:5861805861800. Have you thought about running in the municipal election? You have time. The deadline is Monday, this coming Monday, five days from now, Monday at 04:30. So even if you hadn't decided up until now, you still have a chance if you wanted to go throw your name in the hat.
Speaker 2:Let's say you've never done it before. You don't have any public recognition. You don't know a politician. You don't know any of the city leadership, you don't have a relationship with any of the media outlets. Let's say that you're starting from scratch and you don't even know what's going on right now.
Speaker 2:I still say if you are ambitious enough, go run for public office. The learning lesson, the experience, the insight, the people that you'll meet, there is no other activity that you can do in our community, Say I've done a whole bunch of different activities that will introduce you to more people across Juneau's entire spectrum than running for local office because everybody wants to know who the candidates are. And so let's say you just moved to town like a year or two ago and you and you haven't met as many people in town as you'd like, run for office. Not only will you be far more knowledgeable in the ongoings of your local city municipality, but the number of people that you get to meet across the community, there's no other way to meet that many people. Maybe if you hosted Problem Corner here with me, you could meet that many people.
Speaker 2:Good morning. Welcome to Problem Corner. You're live and on the air.
Speaker 7:Oh, Problem Corner.
Speaker 2:Hello, sir. Yeah. I got you. Can you hear me okay? Hello?
Speaker 2:Alright. Well, I hear you. I've got my volumes all the way up. Man, I'm sorry you guys aren't hearing me today. I have to find out
Speaker 8:what's hear you just fine.
Speaker 2:Oh, okay. Well, what you got going on today, buddy?
Speaker 8:I was calling to see what that what size tires that guy was looking for, sixteens? I'm not sure. I Oh, yeah. 20555R
Speaker 2:sixteens.
Speaker 8:55R 16.
Speaker 5:Yep. Okay. How about that phone
Speaker 8:number that came with that? 209-2353. 2353?
Speaker 2:2353. That is correct.
Speaker 8:Right on. I appreciate it.
Speaker 2:Hey. No worries, buddy. You have a good day. Thanks for the call. Always glad to make Problem Corner work.
Speaker 2:Hey. Christine has a medium and extra large dog kennel, 20 for the pair. If you need a dog kennel, call 723-6526. (907) 723-6526 for the medium and extra large dog kennel for $20. Maybe if you have to, like, separate your your dogs, like, you don't want the younger dog nipping at the bigger dog.
Speaker 2:Get a couple of kennels, separate them out. Alright. 5861805861800. You can, give me a shout here and join me on air. Make sure all the buttons are clear.
Speaker 2:So I was talking about running for municipal election. Have you ever been critical of your local small government? Running for office is gonna give you a new perspective. When you're going to all the meetings and you're maybe you don't get elected or maybe you're just kinda going through the, election or the campaign process, one of the things that is recommended to do is duplicate an assembly member's roles, for that month. Because assembly members don't just meet as the assembly like your regular full assembly meeting that happens on Monday nights once a month where they actually have public testimony.
Speaker 2:They vote on stuff. Got a call and I'll go back to that. Good morning. Welcome to Problem Corner. You're live and on the air.
Speaker 5:Good morning and I can hear you very good.
Speaker 2:Excellent. What can I do for you today, So
Speaker 5:a couple of things for sale? Sure. First one is a winemaking equipment. If you go and make their own wine, it's pretty much all the equipment you need. The primary, secondary, six gallon carb water, fermenter, some one gallon jugs, thermometers, hydrometers, siphons.
Speaker 2:What was the craziest wine that you ever made, sir?
Speaker 7:I'm sorry?
Speaker 2:What was the craziest wine that you ever made? Did you make like dandelion wine or tomato wine? We tried
Speaker 5:some fruit wine, but we preferred just a chardonnay. The wine kits are available from Gourmet, Alaska at the Met Gal Mall.
Speaker 2:Oh, sure. Okay.
Speaker 5:So it's the water he carries. This is just the equipment that y'all that you need.
Speaker 2:Sure.
Speaker 5:Basically, everything to make it for $50.
Speaker 2:Alright. That's a smoking deal for winemaking equipment.
Speaker 5:And the phone number for that is (907) 723-8302.
Speaker 2:Yes, sir.
Speaker 5:Okay. Appreciate it. Thank you.
Speaker 2:Hey. Thank you. Alright. That gentleman has wine making equipment. $50 for the whole shebang.
Speaker 2:7238302. 7238302. The reason I know about crazy wines I'm gonna share a crazy story with you real quick. I actually told you guys about my grandmother one time. My grand great grandparents died during the Spanish flu epidemic in the 1919, and then a few years later, my great grandfather died.
Speaker 2:So my grandmother grew up in an orphanage due to the, the Spanish flu pandemic in the early nineteen hundreds. That was the grandmother I told you about. That was like the backstory for her. Well, she had a garden. She grew as much as she could.
Speaker 2:It was post World War II generation where they grew as much food as they could and she brewed wine. And I'd heard so many stories about her wine brewing that she made dandelion wine and she made a delicious wine from tomatoes. I'm like holy smokes. Okay. So one day, and this is for all you folks that want to make wine or beer.
Speaker 2:She did it in their basement, out of the way, cool, dark, dry place. And they're all upstairs and they hear this giant explosion like boom and shook the house and, you know, they're thinking, oh my gosh, what's happened? And when they went downstairs and investigated, the five gallon glass bottle of or fermenting thing of wine exploded and coated the entire basement in a like a fine layer of fermenting wine. And it took them years to like have it not smell like wine down there. I thought that was relevant to the topic.
Speaker 2:If you would like to try and make wine making equipment just I think they have better equipment. This probably had to be sixty years ago. So I think they have like the the burpers so that the you can't build the pressure up too high. If you want that wine making equipment, 723-8302. 723-8302.
Speaker 2:I shared earlier as we were talking about Eagan, and, I couldn't say with a straight face that everyone would, speed back up to 55, because if you've driven on Eagan ever, you know that the average speed on Eagan is closer to 60. It is what it is. That's the speed that, I think I heard it called the natural speed one time. Forget about the speed limit. The the natural speed that people wanna drive on that length of road is in the low sixties.
Speaker 2:So, you are technically correct, but, yeah, try riding in the car with somebody going 55, see how much fun that is. Alright. Five eight six one eight hundred. 586-1800. I got a minute or so.
Speaker 2:I can take your call, before we get to go to the break. As I was finishing up, I was talking about running for municipal election. If you're wanting to meet the community, if you're wanting to learn more about how the community works, how small government works, how the manager's office runs the city and the assembly gives direction, running for office is the way to go. Oh, not that one. Let's try this one.
Speaker 2:Good morning. Welcome to Problem Corner. You're live and on the air.
Speaker 3:Yeah. Wait. I was just wondering, you know, with this second crossing, I'm not sure if they ever decided on a on a viable route.
Speaker 2:They're in that process now.
Speaker 3:I know. But, you know, Vanderbilt was a perfect intersection
Speaker 7:Yep.
Speaker 3:To do that with. Pretty much. Now it's
Speaker 9:not.
Speaker 2:Actually, to me, having Vanderbilt section intersection go through construction now, that was an indicator to me that they're gonna be continuing to like that to me, that was a sign that that's probably gonna be the location for it. The state loves to do a project, and then five years later, like, redo it. That's their favorite thing for some reason. So to me, it I it's just screwing second crossing there.
Speaker 3:It had it had a nice light. That could have been just added to and now what are they taking the light out?
Speaker 2:They're taking the light out headed into town southbound. The exit or the northbound inside lanes, that will have a controlled intersection for the left turns. Left turns going continuing south or left turns going onto Vanderbilt Road. So there's only gonna be they took out, like, half the lights.
Speaker 3:And that allowed them to put a light at Fred's or something like that?
Speaker 2:That I don't know officially if that is. I've heard anecdotally that, yes, that's one of the reasons.
Speaker 3:Yeah. Yeah. Well, hopefully, didn't mess it up so they can't use that intersection for a second crossing because I always thought that was a really good
Speaker 2:spot. It's the the least intrusive for the community in the neighborhood. A controlled light intersection that's right there on the edge of the road. Yeah. I'm on the same boat you are today.
Speaker 3:Okay. Good day.
Speaker 2:I love these discussions I have with you too, sir. They're they're some of my favorite.
Speaker 3:Eric, take care, buddy. Good day, Wayne.
Speaker 2:You too, sir. Yeah. Thanks for the call. Alright. And that's gonna do it.
Speaker 2:I'm gonna take a short break, a little bit of commercials if I can find my mouse. Come on. Oh, you have to use the right mouse. Hey. I'll be back with more Problem Corner on KINY.
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Speaker 1:Now back to Problem Corner where our community meets to talk, trade, and share.
Speaker 2:Hi. Welcome back to Problem Corner. Give me a call here. 586-1800. Somebody's already calling.
Speaker 2:Good morning. Welcome to Problem Corner. You're live and on the air.
Speaker 8:Hey. What's up, brother Cups?
Speaker 2:How are doing, sir?
Speaker 8:Oh, not too bad. Not too bad. I wanna talk about the Vanderbilt Intersection.
Speaker 2:Yes, sir.
Speaker 8:I think they should've left it alone. I think it kinda reminds me of you know how dangerous the Fred Meyer's Intersection was?
Speaker 2:Yes.
Speaker 8:And now we're gonna have two of them.
Speaker 2:No. The Fred Meyer danger came because they didn't have a controlled light. This one has a controlled light. So it'd be the equivalent if they put a light at Fred Meyer's, how much safer would they have made that Fred Meyer Intersection?
Speaker 8:But look at this Vanderbilt. There's no light there anymore?
Speaker 2:No light heading into town. If you are taking a left onto Vanderbilt Road, you will get stopped by a light. But they separated the two lanes that go all the way into town so that way they're unobstructed and no light. So if you're just going downtown, that's one less location you have to stop. And then they have a little on ramp that'll merge from the left side in for people that have taken the the left turn headed into town.
Speaker 7:So there's still a light?
Speaker 2:Only on the side of the road heading back out of town headed north to the valley.
Speaker 8:I I hope so because it seems
Speaker 2:Not hope so. That's where the light will be placed. So the lights the cars on Vanderbilt Road that are taking a left, they'll have to stop at a light. Cars that are going south
Speaker 6:Oh, okay.
Speaker 2:South inbound south, to town, if you're not turning there, you won't have a light. You won't have to stop. If you're taking a left for Meegan to go on to Vanderbilt Road, there will be a light there.
Speaker 8:Okay. Because I've seen that I was watching that Facebook thing that they put up and it didn't say anything about the lights so I hope so.
Speaker 2:That's where the lights will be so that way people can go.
Speaker 8:Yeah. Okay. Alright. I can just
Speaker 2:Alright. Hey. You have a great day. Yes. Does this improve our transportation corridor in Juneau by allowing cars that are just traveling all the way into town to just keep going.
Speaker 2:I don't know. I guess we'll have to drive it and see. Alright. 586-1800. Come and join me on air or send me a text 586-1800.
Speaker 2:Please, if you can, show your support for Reginald Nelson senior. His remains are being brought home to Angoon today on the ferry. If you can, please come and meet the ferry, and please keep prayers going for all in need. And this was from the Dion no. They talked about somebody else who had passed.
Speaker 2:Okay. But again, condolences and sympathies to the Reginald Nelson senior family. Got a call. Good morning. Welcome to Problem Corner.
Speaker 2:You're live and on the air.
Speaker 6:Thanks, Wade. I was hoping to get maybe you could help me move forward a little bit with the issue I was having. And it's out on Fritz Cove Road. Everybody who has beachfront property out there is getting incurring a lot of damage from the whale watching boats and such.
Speaker 2:I'm sorry. What is the whale watching boat doing?
Speaker 6:Well, it's just the wake for
Speaker 2:Oh, the wake. Okay. Getting
Speaker 6:we're all getting damaged to our to our property. Like, it our our dock has just gotten broken up. I had to do a pretty fair amount of money repairs to the dock from last summer's damage. And then I'm talking to a buddy down the way last two weeks ago, his boat the wake hit it, and it bounced so hard it ripped the cleat off his boat.
Speaker 2:Oh my gosh. You gotta
Speaker 6:really hit a boat hard for that. Guy for another guy further down had one of his pilings sheared off, a steel piling actually sheared off. And it's just it's a real problem, and nobody wants to acknowledge it or be responsible for it.
Speaker 2:Was trying to think
Speaker 6:money and do dock repairs, but I really don't I feel like this is they should be paying for I'm not gonna get recourse on them to pay for these repairs, but after I do the repairs, I don't want they're absolutely destroying the beachfront properties, docks, boats, and stuff. It's it's a real thing.
Speaker 2:Sure. Well, I wonder which entity would have the most authority there. I was thinking Coast Guard maybe. Would Coast Guard be over their speed?
Speaker 6:They don't. Yeah. The Coast Guard, they deferred, the city defers and says they do the docks but don't do out there. The Coast Guard, I can't remember their exact wording but they deferred it.
Speaker 2:What about state of Alaska? What authority would the state of Alaska would that be like forestry or fish and game?
Speaker 6:I don't know. I'm gonna go to probably the next assembly meeting and bring it up there and start trying to go down the road. But, I mean, there's a number of people that are involved, you know, in pretty deeply invested in it and have had the damage. And, like, you know, one person who's long time, you know, person, very knowledgeable, successful, he's like, the answer is they need to city needs to buy a boat. They need to patrol it, and they need to they they, you know, like, make a no wake zone all the way out of Auk Bay.
Speaker 2:Well, I thought there was a no wake. Is there already a no wake zone? It's just not long enough or large enough?
Speaker 6:It's like maybe yeah. It's just outside the the breakwater. You go a little further, and then it's the wake. But it's just and it's I mean, we all know. We've all watched and and watched it, the whale watching boats are specifically
Speaker 2:because they're bigger.
Speaker 6:Racing in and out all day long and really causing a lot of the damage. And they don't, of course, want to admit it or step up to it. And so the the solution that we've all talked about is no wake zone all the way out of Hawk Bay and then enforce it. You know? Write tickets, enforce that no wake.
Speaker 6:But at any rate, I was trying to see if you knew how which avenue they helped to go down to start moving this forward.
Speaker 2:I'm actually I'm thinking state authority somewhere would have to be because the water, it's who governs the water.
Speaker 6:And Yeah.
Speaker 2:The area of water you're talking about, for me, my understanding is that is state water. And so having a state official or what state entity, fish and game, forest service, one of those guys or one of those entities could maybe direct you to the right office.
Speaker 6:Well, and maybe our state representative might be a good person to call me. There you go. There we go.
Speaker 2:A state representative is kinda like a human switchboard. They take the citizen issue and then they plug it into the right state authority. I like that.
Speaker 6:Yeah. Maybe that's that'll be my next phone call. Maybe there just to see where in town and who to go.
Speaker 2:You know who else I would reach out to is the, what is it? Tourism best management practice hotline. Yeah. Yeah. The TBMP is the organization that all of these groups are a part of.
Speaker 2:Nobody's doing stuff now that's not part of TBMP. Really voicing this to those guys. And the other person that I would chat with is Bob James. Bob is definitely doing, some whale watching stuff, and he might have an insight that could help you come up with an action plan to move forward. So getting the whale watching boats are trying to be proactive towards the problems that the consequences of having the largest whale watching fleet on the planet.
Speaker 2:And so they're trying to mitigate those problems. So if you've reached out to that organization, that might be a good starting place and maybe they give you another thousand yards of no wake zone voluntarily. And I'm just spitballing here, but reaching out for
Speaker 6:the organization. Called That's why you because you you do good input. I always have good input.
Speaker 2:Oh, thank you. But starting with that organization and being like, hey. Here's the problem that is being caused by We're Watching Boats. Can you guys help us with a solution so that this doesn't continue to be an ongoing problem? A calm approach like that would probably get you further than anything.
Speaker 6:Yep. I like it.
Speaker 2:Alright. I got another call, buddy.
Speaker 6:Appreciate you. Thanks, Wade. Enjoy your day.
Speaker 2:You too, buddy. Alright. Keep going here. Good morning. Welcome to Problem Corner.
Speaker 2:You're live and on the air.
Speaker 9:Yes. I'd like to get a hold of, Ernestine
Speaker 8:Duquois. Ernestine Duquois, can you please call 504750, please?
Speaker 2:4750. Say her last name for me. Dumiqual? Dumiqual. Dumiqual.
Speaker 2:Okay. Yeah. Can do a search out for Ernestine. Thank
Speaker 9:you.
Speaker 2:Hey. You're welcome, buddy. Important. Okay. Alright.
Speaker 7:Important that
Speaker 9:she needs to call.
Speaker 2:Alright. We'll do. We'll tell her. Alright. Ernestine Dugua, please call 504750504750.
Speaker 2:Ernestine, it's important that you give that gentleman a call. Alright. 586-1800. That will get you on air. I had a question.
Speaker 2:I don't know if I'm gonna get answer today, but I'm gonna keep asking this question. Has the exodus of Juno begun? And I asked that question because yesterday I heard of the second business owning family that is like, forget this, I've had enough, I'm moving out of Juno. And I don't wanna say that was kind of their words, but in a nutshell, that was kind of their words. We have advertised moving sales repeatedly here on Problem Corner this year.
Speaker 2:It feels like every week there's another moving sale, and I'm hearing some of those stories. I am also hearing and meeting new coast guard families, so we do have some influx of new families. But is the exodus of long time Juno families just being fed up, has that begun? Because if that is a real thing, we have a serious issue for our community. No community does good when they are losing a population base.
Speaker 2:We think we have financial troubles now. Reduce the population by another 10% and see how those problems will be magnified more than 10%. Does has the exodus of Juneau begun? That is my question. Good morning.
Speaker 2:Welcome to Problem Corner. You're live and on the air.
Speaker 7:Okay, Wade. This is Mel.
Speaker 2:Hey, Mel.
Speaker 7:Hi there. You know, I I got a two radios going. I shut one down.
Speaker 2:Sure.
Speaker 7:What I had been talking about with family members and others about what you just brought up is the population in general has been shrinking, and a lot of it has to do with there was a lot of rental units shut down. You you can name them off. Like, the Bergman is sitting up there, water damage that is shut down. And Juneau hasn't been keeping up with housing. It's common housing.
Speaker 7:And I asked you one time, how much does a one bedroom a basic one bedroom apartment go for in general? Do you remember that? And you mentioned something like 15,000. Is that so right?
Speaker 2:No. I thought one bedroom average was, like, 1,200 to 1,400 in town, but I don't recall that immediately.
Speaker 7:Okay. Alright. Well, I'm I'm in rent control, and that's just the way it is. But it's high enough to where I'm paying $1,146. And then, of course, in the winter time with electric, either goes up.
Speaker 2:Okay.
Speaker 7:But people that want to come to Juneau and like, Juneau is probably scrambling to figure out how to get housing for the postcard because it's it's a very important thing to get the icebreakers here.
Speaker 8:Absolutely. We
Speaker 7:have to figure out and I say we even at getting close to forty six years, I I want the best for general. I have a lot of family here, and it's it's true that our population is shrinking because of the housing. That's a big thing, and there's no immediate answer. Wait. You you know it, and I I do.
Speaker 7:But at least take a look at it and and see if you can slow this down by figuring out to how to get a contractor with enough brakes to put in basic housing. That's all I got today, Wade.
Speaker 2:Alright. Well, I appreciate that, Mel. Thanks for the call. You would think that it would just be easy snap of the fingers and you can buy, but the process does not lend itself to be easy. Bureaucratic process to get housing is one of the issues that the housing developers have complained about.
Speaker 2:People that build houses for a living have to present their plans to people that don't build houses for a living and then they look for reasons not to let the house build. That's literally how they determine if there's a reason or they could make they're looking for code compliance, things that long that the house is on the proper location of the property and that the appropriate regulations of setbacks and all those other things. And so when a contractor wants to build a house, they have to go and say every one of those things, which is fair. And then city's job is to look for any reason that they might have missed that they could prevent them or go tell them you have to do this in order to build this house here. And so, having a system like that does go against getting house and building up quickly.
Speaker 2:However, on the other hand of that, the assembly did authorize a twelve year tax abatement for multifamily housing over four units that occupies 75% of the usable land or the usable space. And so having twelve years tax abatement for multifamily housing, that's a huge amount of money. Know, take a $1,000,000 multifamily housing, however many units would fit in that, that's $10,000 of property tax right there. So the more of those so that's money one that those saved. But the city having another $1,000,000 property there, how many units would that be?
Speaker 2:So that's kind of the way to look at it. Are we seeing new units going up? Yeah. Drive on Old Glacier Highway between the overpass and Fred Myers. They are literally building multifamily housing right there.
Speaker 2:And, hopefully everybody was aware of the, twelve year tax abatement for to incentivize multi family housing. I hope that explains a little bit. God, dare I even explain Telephone Hill. So that gentleman's correct. They're saying housing at all costs, build housing.
Speaker 2:Housing is the problem. Lack of housing is what drives the higher cost of living. The city comes up with a plan to take a central piece of property, put a 100 units there instead of 16, and everyone loses their mind. Whether you agree with that or not, agree with that, the city did make an effort to try and develop more housing. Good morning.
Speaker 2:Welcome to Problem Corner. You're live and on the air. Good
Speaker 22:morning. I just have a short short statement.
Speaker 2:Sure.
Speaker 22:Someone mentioned to me that three bears have been killed crossing the highway.
Speaker 2:Oh, no. I didn't hear that.
Speaker 22:Crossing from the dump to the channel.
Speaker 2:Yes. I I know there are some bears in that area.
Speaker 22:And they thought a tunnel or some kind of a way through should be built for them, and I agree. And I tried calling the city, and they said call DOT.
Speaker 2:Because it's a DOT road. But
Speaker 22:when I called the DOT, nobody there knew who to call. So I'm hoping that somebody knows who to call, and that's just my comment. Thank you.
Speaker 2:Alright. Bye. Alright. You're welcome. So who do we call?
Speaker 2:I might I'm thinking fish and game would probably be the best entities. If you have better information than that, where could a person start the process of seeing if it was possible to get an animal crossing tunnel? Definitely not the first time I've heard of that. They have animal crossing tunnels or different there's probably a couple of different methods to allow animals to pass clearly where they don't endanger themselves of getting injured on the road system. Nobody wants to hit a bear on their car because while you will injure the bear, the bear will probably run off and your car will be all dented up.
Speaker 2:And the only thing that you'll be able to say about it is you have a cool story how a bear hit your car. And, hopefully, that bear won't have to be euthanized later on because of its injury, which is why this woman was calling to ask about that. And I mentioned that because my wife literally was driving down Old Glacier Highway, back in the twenty tens, and, a bear literally smacked the side of her car, ran right into her, had a good old dent and, you know, not enough for cover the deductible. It wasn't worth repairing, but, like, the whole rest of the time she had that car, I'd be like, yeah. That dent is from the bear that hit your mom.
Speaker 2:Alright. There you go. We have a very happy, happy special birthday to one of the Juno Media Center's own Devin Stickler. Happy birthday, Devin. Devin is one of the radio reps here or account reps here at the radio station, And Devin brings her little sidekick, Sailor Ray into there's Devin now.
Speaker 2:Happy birthday, Devin. Yay. So Devin brings in her little sidekick, Sailor Ray, who is just cute as a button and brings a lot of life and a lot of energy to the Juno Media Center. So if you see Devin out there and she's one of your reps or if you have a business that you would like to get on the radio station, Devin is the right gal for you. And so big happy birthday to Devin Stickler of the radio station.
Speaker 2:And if you request that Sailor Ray comes on her, like, work appointment with you while she's setting up your radio stuff, sidekick's pretty cool. Alright. 586-1800 as we have just a couple of minutes left in the show. 586-1800. So Mel, obviously calling and commenting, if we don't fix the housing situation, the problem will continue to get worse.
Speaker 2:And I've I've just heard of a few folks moving out of town that I wouldn't have guessed they would have moved out of town. A business owner that was like, forget it. I've had enough and leaving town. Man, that's a real thing. How do we replace the active citizens of our community and bring new families in, bring bring families with young kids so we stabilize our school population?
Speaker 2:If you've got ideas for that, how do we stop the exodus? Or maybe you don't think it's begun. Maybe this is just some of the people that move out during the summertime. If that's your thoughts on it, you can let us know here. Hey.
Speaker 2:That's gonna do it for the show today. You can always call in or send a text, 586-1800, with a 907 on it, of course, 586-1800. Send an email, air@kinyradio.com. Yvonne has four two fifteen seventy r 16 Michelin tires for sale. Excellent condition.
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Speaker 2:And remember on Problem Corner, there are no such thing as problems, just solutions we've yet to discover. Have a great rest of your day. I'm Wade. I'm out of here.
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