| Building construction permits are not required within the KPB except within boundaries of some incorporated cities: Homer, Kenai, Seldovia, Seward, and Soldotna. Therefore, data presented in this section does not include all KPB construction activity. It does, however, provide an indication of trends.
KPB permits are categorized as Residential New (RN), Residential Alteration/Additions (RA), Commercial New (CN), and Commercial Alteration/Additions (CA).
The individual cities, Homer, Kenai, Seldovia, Seward, and Soldotna, may have other categories but, in an effort to provide consistent categories across the KPB these categories have been combined into one of the four.
Points to Note:
* - Seward did not begin permitting until 1988 while each of the other
permitting entities began during 1986.
* - The peak in permit values during 1995 occurred as a result of
permitting the Alaska SeaLife Center in Seward.
* - The 2004 peak occurred when the Central Peninsula General Hospital
expansion, along with an addition to the Fred Meyer facility and the new
Trustworthy Hardware facility were permitted in Soldotna.
* - When evaluating construction activity, much construction activity is not
reported for two reasons. First, permits are not required by the Kenai
Peninsula Borough, but only by cities within the Borough. Secondly,
projects may be permitted by agencies outside of the KPB. A case in point is the new bridge under construction over the Kenai River in Soldotna. This total project is
built by the State of Alaska Department of Transportation, and therefore
is not required to acquire a permit from the city of Soldotna.
* - Sales data during 1999 and prior years is presented by SIC coding,
which is not consistent with NAICS coding that is used to present sales
data during 2000 through the present. |