LUTHERAN QUILTERS – Members of the Quilts for Comfort Group stand between pews draped with some of the 205 quilts they made, in the Sitka Lutheran Church Tuesday. The group made the quilts for five local non-profits and one in Anchorage. The remaining quilts are sent to Lutheran World Relief which distributes them to places around the world in need, such as Ukraine, as part of Personal Care Kits. Pictured are, from left, Helen Cunningham, Kathleen Brandt,Vicki Swanson, Paulla Hardy, Kim Hunter, Linda Swanson and Sue Fleming. (Sentinel Photo by James Poulson)
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It may be time to revisit the policy limiting liveaboards in Crescent Harbor, and consider how Airbnb rentals on boats would fit into that policy, says the harbor master.
Crescent Harbor is pictured today. (Sentinel Photo by James Poulson)
“I think so,” said Harbor Master Stan Eliason. “A few commission members hit me up over the summer on the issue.”
The Sitka Port and Harbors Commission was scheduled to take up the matter at its last regular meeting on Monday, but there was no quorum.
Planning Commission members on Tuesday postponed a request for a short-term rental permit aboard a five-bedroom vessel on float 1 in Crescent Harbor. Although a few commission members said they liked the request, they wanted to hear from the Port and Harbors Commission and Harbor Department on how the rental would fit in with harbor operations, and whether it conflicted with the policy for Crescent Harbor, where liveaboards are limited to one per float.
Eliason said there is also the question on whether a short-term rental would be considered a liveaboard.
“We’ve got a lot of homework to do,” the harbor master said.
When the harbor was built, Eliason said, there was an agreement between the city and Sheldon Jackson College not to allow liveaboards or transient moorage in the harbor. After the college closed in 2007, the commission agreed to loosen the policy and allow one liveaboard per float. Currently, there are three liveaboards in Crescent on three different floats, including one where the short-term rental is requested. The harbor has seven moorage floats.
The Planning Commission’s main concern at its Tuesday meeting was what safety standards were going to be used when the building department gives the go-ahead for short-term rentals on boats. While the policy is clear for homes, boats have not been taken into account and a health and life safety inspection is required.
The panel asked for a “consortium,” consisting of the building and harbor departments, the harbor commission and the Coast Guard, to come together to agree on safety standards for liveaboards in the harbors.
Port and Harbors Commission Chairman Kevin Knox said he is looking forward to talking to Eliason and other commission members about the issue.
“Of all the harbors, that is the most attractive for that sort of thing,” he said, “but parking and from a safety standpoint it’s probably the most problematic.”
He said the harbor is not in good shape.
“It’s definitely something Port and Harbors has to talk about,” he said. “I’m in favor of doing some level of that there and in our other harbors, but I’m not sure what it should be yet – having 10 in Crescent Harbor would be too many.”
Eliason said the issue of short-term rentals in the harbors is on the Port and Harbor Commission’s next agenda, set for 6 p.m. Oct. 12 in Centennial Hall.
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Photo caption: National Republican Chairman George Bush takes a drink of water offered by Jan Craddick, Sitka delegate, during the Republican convention held here. Mrs. Craddick explained to Bush that the water was from Indian River, which means, according to local legend, that he will return.