Ketchikan's housing crisis could cost the community a generation, planning director says
Buildings line Front Street in Ketchikan on October 22, 2022. (Eric Stone/KRBD) Ketchikan's elected leaders need to decide what future they want fo...
Buildings line Front Street in Ketchikan on October 22, 2022. (Eric Stone/KRBD) Ketchikan's elected leaders need to decide what future they want for the community. That was one message delivered to the Ketchikan Gateway Borough Assembly last week by Planning Director Richard Harney. 'What is it that we want to export out of this community?' he asked. 'Do we just want to export the memories and the experiences of the visitors that come here? And that's fine, if that's what we want to do. But if that's … what our main focus is, the visitor industry, we're also going to be exporting our children.