All this before the prison is built.
All this while Port MacKenzie is in its infancy.
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There’s no question a population surge toward the end of the road is inevitable. When the prison is built, commerce will follow. As will more homes.
When the port becomes more active, the same will happen.
Both will provide good-paying jobs and those people will give up the drive to Anchorage and live where they work.
Bluff real estate with Inlet and Anchorage views will be prime properties.
With all that in the future, it’s no wonder the borough and school district are looking at that area for land to build a middle school and a high school.
In the not so distant future, Knik-Goose Bay will be the next Valley city. There will be council members to elect, ordinances to write and codes to enforce.
A small police force will be formed to keep the peace.
It’s the next likely spot for Three Bears to set up shop so residents down there don’t have to drive to Wasilla to shop.
Cafes will open up. Tire and repair shops. Gas stations and liquor stores. The kids will need a skate park. A medical clinic will tend to the injured and infirm.
Undoubtedly there will be a call to move the capital to Goose Bay, making it the most interestingly named state capital in the nation.
All this is to say, now is the time to begin planning how that city and area will grow.
We are witnessing the failures of planning ahead right here under our noses.
Some 30 years ago, nobody thought the dirt road between Palmer and Wasilla would become one of the heaviest traveled in the state.
Now, real estate on each side of it makes it almost impractical to widen to care for the traffic it carries. It’s no longer a highway, it’s a high-speed street with an ever-growing number of traffic lights.
Subdivisions were built willy-nilly back in the day when planning was nonexistent.
The list of planning failures goes on.
With careful planning now, mistakes made in the core area decades ago can be averted before Knik-Goose Bay begins its emergence as the next Valley hub.


Comments
11 comment(s)Top favorite comments about living way out here wrote on Nov 1, 2009 5:53 PM:
2-"a gravel pit just started operating at 4:30 this morning" MSBCode enf.- "Well you get what you pay for [in taxes]
3- " a woman seems to be in distress, alone and not mentally capable, yelling and walking along KGB" State Trooper- " Do I have to drive all the way out there?"
No services, no police, no respect....
Yeah living "way out there" is great! "
Vinni wrote on Nov 1, 2009 3:54 PM:
offsoapstone wrote on Oct 26, 2009 1:36 PM:
Concerned KGB Resident wrote on Oct 26, 2009 1:12 PM:
NO MORE STORES
STAY IN TOWN- LEAVE KGB ALONE
WE DON'T NEED THIS! "
Good By City Life wrote on Oct 26, 2009 11:15 AM:
knik princess wrote on Oct 26, 2009 9:02 AM:
we agree wrote on Oct 26, 2009 7:54 AM:
Refuse to pave... wrote on Oct 25, 2009 1:42 PM:
No WAY wrote on Oct 25, 2009 1:28 PM:
THIS IS EXACTLY WHAT WE DO NOT WANT!
WE LIVE AWAY FROM THESE LIMITERS TO BE AWAY FROM THOSE EXACT THINGS.
QUIT TRYING TO PROMOTE THIS ABSURD LIFESTYLE ON US.
GO AWAY. "
Knik Resident wrote on Oct 25, 2009 8:16 AM:
palmeranian wrote on Oct 25, 2009 7:21 AM: