Juneau City Zoning Code

(a)

The City and Borough Comprehensive Plan is designed to lessen congestion in the streets; secure safety from fire, panic, and other dangers; promote health and the general welfare; provide adequate light and air; prevent the overcrowding of land; avoid undue concentration of population; and facilitate adequate and cost-effective provision for transportation, water, sewerage, schools, parks, and other public requirements.

(b)

The comprehensive plan adopted by the assembly by ordinance contains the policies that guide and direct public and private land use activities in the City and Borough. The implementation of such policies includes the adoption of ordinances in this title. Where there is a conflict between the comprehensive plan and any ordinance adopted under or pursuant to this title, such ordinance shall take precedence over the comprehensive plan.

(1)

Plan adopted. There is adopted as the comprehensive plan of the City and Borough of Juneau, that publication titled The Comprehensive Plan of the City and Borough of Juneau, Alaska, 2013 Update, including the following additions:

(A)

Reserved.

(B)

The City and Borough of Juneau's Historic and Cultural Preservation Plan, dated February 2020;

(C)

The Long Range Waterfront Plan for the City and Borough of Juneau, dated January 22, 2004, as amended including by Ordinance 2022-12;

(D)

The Last Chance Basin Land Management Plan, dated May 1978, updated November 1994;

(E)

Watershed Control Program - Salmon Creek Source, dated April 1992;

(F)

Watershed Control and Wellhead Protection Program - Gold Creek Source, dated November 1994;

(G)

Chapter 6 and Plate 1 of the West Douglas Conceptual Plan, dated May 1997;

(H)

Juneau Non-Motorized Transportation Plan, dated November 2009;

(I)

2010 Downtown Parking Management Plan;

(J)

Chapter 5 of the Willoughby District Land Use Plan, dated March 2012;

(K)

Municipal Drinking Water Supply Plan, dated June 5, 2012;

(L)

Wireless Telecommunication Master Plan, dated May 2014;

(M)

Juneau Economic Development Plan, dated January 28, 2015;

(N)

Auke Bay Area Plan, dated March 16, 2015;

(O)

Lemon Creek Area Plan, dated December 18, 2017;

(P)

Blueprint Downtown Area Plan, dated January 6, 2025;

(Q)

Downtown Douglas/West Juneau, dated December 15, 2025.

(2)

Changes, corrections, and interpretations. Reserved.

(c)

No rights created. The goals and policies set forth in the comprehensive plan are aspirational in nature, and are not intended to commit the City and Borough to a particular action, schedule, or methodology. Neither the comprehensive plan nor the technical appendix adopted under this section nor the amendment of either creates any right in any person to a zone change nor to any permit or other authority to make a particular use of land; neither do they constitute a regulation of land nor a reservation or dedication of privately owned land for public purpose.

(Serial No. 87-49, § 2, 1987; Serial No. 88-53, § 2, 1988; Serial No. 92-37, § 2, 1992; Serial No. 94-44, § 2, 1994; Serial No. 95-37am, § 2, 1996; Serial No. 97-13, § 2, 1997; Serial No. 2003-06, § 2, 2-10-2003; Serial No. 2004-40, § 2, 10-25-2004; Serial No. 2007-07, § 2, 2-12-2007, eff. 3-15-2007; Serial No. 2008-19, § 2, 6-23-2008; Serial No. 2008-30, § 2, 10-20-2008; Serial No. 2009-15, § 2, 11-2-2009; Serial No. 2010-21, § 3, 7-19-2010; Serial No. 2012-14, § 2, 4-2-2012; Serial No. 2013-26(am), § 2, 11-4-2013, eff. 12-5-2013; Serial No. 2014-32(e)am, § 5, 9-29-2014, eff. 10-29-2014; Serial No. 2015-10, § 2, 2-23-2015, eff. 3-26-2015; Serial No. 2015-13, § 2, 3-16-2015, eff. 4-16-2015; Serial No. 2017-34, § 2, 1-8-2018, eff. 2-8-2018; Serial No. 2020-07, § 2, 3-16-2020, eff. 4-16-2020; Serial No. 2021-13, § 2, 9-13-2021, eff. 10-14-2021; Serial No. 2022-12(am), § 2, 3-14-2022, eff. 4-13-2022; Serial No. 2024-49, § 2, 1-6-2025, eff. 2-5-2025; Serial No. 2025-42, § 2, 2-9-2026, eff. 3-11-2026)