As more people use electric-assisted bicycles, scooters and other new forms of “micromobility” devices on Anchorage’s trails, city officials are rethinking how to regulate the changing technology.
Business owners say the new encampment has brought a surge of problems and crime to the area. Homeless residents say they moved there because they had nowhere else to go.
Police said they received multiple calls reporting that a man was firing a shotgun from a Chevy pickup truck near the 3300 block of Eagle Street just after 11 p.m. on Tuesday.
The Anchorage Assembly’s measure calls for short-term rental online platforms to give the city information on the numbers of rentals, their locations and the types of units rented, among other information.
The city has five years to complete the project, which aims to improve safety along a 1.5-mile stretch of Bragaw Street, between the Glenn Highway and Northern Lights Boulevard.
Hoping to attract and retain more workers, the Municipality of Anchorage expanded remote work options to the Anchorage Municipal Employees Association, a union of about 500 staff.