(A) Purpose and intent. The Holding District is intended to provide a temporary zoning designation for those lands within the City of Unalaska that are suitable and intended for future development but for which the landowner has no proposed land use plans. The Holding District is not intended to prohibit future development, but to provide both the city and the landowner flexibility in determining the future zoning district for those lands initially designated as Holding District. When land uses other than those listed immediately below under (B) “Uses Permitted” are desired by any landowner in the Holding District, said owner will be required to obtain a zoning amendment reclassifying the property within the Holding District the landowner intends to develop to a zoning district that permits the desired use. No other zoning district may be rezoned to a Holding District.
(B) Uses permitted. In the Holding District no building or structure or land shall be used or erected for other than the following activities until a zoning district change has been obtained for the land:
(1) Traditional personal use subsistence resource gathering activities including fishing, hunting, shellfish gathering, and the gathering of plant species;
(2) Temporary and casual recreation uses, defined as hiking, camping, picnicking, skiing, snowshoeing and sport fishing;
(3) Noncommercial fishing camps;
(4) Other similar uses not listed above which meet the “Purpose and Intent” provisions of this section of the ordinance and would be no more objectionable than those uses listed above. The Director of Planning shall make a “Planning Determination” in this matter subject to appeal to the Planning Commission (See § 8.12.220(A)(2)).
(C) Conditional uses and structures. In the Holding District no conditional uses will be allowed to be applied for or be permitted. Any desired use by a landowner will require a zone amendment which permits the desired use outright.
(Ord. No. 2001-04, passed 5-8-01; Am. Ord. 2005-09, passed 4-26-05)