The recently announced <a href="https://www.adn.com/alaska-news/anchorage/2026/06/02/anchorage-assembly-resurrects-zoning-policy-under-new-name-with-changes/" target="_blank" rel="" title="https://www.adn.com/alaska-news/anchorage/2026/06/02/anchorage-assembly-resurrects-zoning-policy-under-new-name-with-changes/">zoning ordinance</a> sponsored by Assembly members Erin Baldwin Day and George Martinez seeks to increase housing density by allowing taller homes — 40 feet in most zones, including single-family R2 zones like South Addition — and reduced setbacks of zero feet along common lot lines. Were you in Anchorage during the zero-lot-line homes built in the ’70s and ’80s? Let’s not repeat those mistakes.