Kenai Peninsula Borough, AK Ordinances (2026)

In the Kenai Peninsula Borough outside the cities, marijuana establishments licensed under AS 17.38 cannot locate within 1,000 feet of a school, within 500 feet of a recreation or…

The Kenai Peninsula Borough has no standalone hotel or occupancy tax. In the unincorporated area outside the cities, hotels, motels, lodges and B&Bs collect the borough's general sales…

A short-term rental in the unincorporated Kenai Peninsula Borough is taxed as "temporary lodging": any stay booked for less than one month. The host is a "seller" under the borough…

Outside the cities, on-street parking on Kenai Peninsula Borough-maintained roads is regulated case by case: the road service area board sets restrictions by resolution and the roads…

Outside the cities, it is unlawful to abandon a vehicle on a borough road, right-of-way, or public property, or on private property without the owner's consent, under KPB 12.08.020. A…

In the Kenai Peninsula Borough's single-family (R-1) Local Option Zoning District standard, KPB 21.44.160(C)(8)(b) caps travel trailers and motor homes at no more than two on each lot…

The Kenai Peninsula Borough outside the cities has no general private-property stormwater ordinance; its drainage rule sits in the road construction standards. KPB 14.06.170 requires…

Outside Kenai Peninsula Borough's cities, erosion and storm water control are enforced only inside the Anadromous Waters Habitat Protection District, the strip within 50 feet of a…

Outside the cities, the Kenai Peninsula Borough regulates construction in FEMA-mapped flood hazard areas under KPB Chapter 21.06. A development permit from the planning department is…

Outside the cities, new construction in a Special Flood Hazard Area must be built to the borough's Flood Protection Elevation, normally the FEMA base flood elevation, under KPB…

Outside the cities, a private boat launch open to the public within the Kenai River habitat protection district needs a conditional use permit from the planning commission under KPB…

In the Kenai Peninsula Borough outside the cities, no private person may block a dedicated right-of-way. KPB 14.40.035(C) bars anyone from regulating traffic flow, placing a traffic…

Anyone who wants to build, place, or maintain a private object in a Kenai Peninsula Borough right-of-way outside the cities needs an encroachment permit from the road service area…

KPB 10.04.160 opens borough solid waste landfills, monofills, and transfer sites to the public for the limited purpose of waste handling and disposal only, and states flatly that…

Smoking, including e-cigarette use, is banned inside every enclosed borough-owned or borough-controlled building and school-district property, within 20 feet of those buildings'…

In the unincorporated borough it is unlawful to dump, throw, or discard municipal solid waste, other waste, or litter anywhere outside a designated disposal area or receptacle, and…

Outside the cities, a fire pit within 50 feet of the Kenai River or other cataloged salmon water is only allowed as a permitted temporary-use structure under KPB 21.18.071(A)(5), and…

Using or selling fireworks is forbidden throughout the unincorporated Kenai Peninsula Borough, outside the cities of Homer, Kachemak City, Kenai, Seldovia, Seward, and Soldotna, under…

In the Kenai Peninsula Borough outside the cities, the borough plainly refuses to enforce private CC&Rs. KPB 20.60.170 requires final subdivision plats to reference recorded covenants…

Outside the cities, the Kenai Peninsula Borough planning commission can order a fire hazard, health hazard or nuisance building condemned and removed under KPB 21.16.010. The owner…

The Kenai Peninsula Borough has no stand-alone sexually oriented business permit or spacing ordinance for the unincorporated area; instead KPB 21.44.130(F) bars 'sexually oriented…

Running a vehicle repair, paint or service shop from a home is banned outright in the North Fork One zoning district near Homer, one of the Kenai Peninsula Borough's few Local Option…

Outside the cities, cutting a tree within 50 feet of anadromous salmon waters needs a staff permit under KPB 21.18.071(A)(1) unless it is dead, hazardous or diseased. Every tree…

In the Kenai Peninsula Borough's Local Option Zoning Districts, one home occupation per lot is allowed by right, without a permit, in the R-1, R-2, R-R, R-W and R-M residential zones…

A home occupation inside a Kenai Peninsula Borough Local Option Zoning District cannot draw more than 20 combined residential and business vehicle trips per day under KPB…

In-home adult or child care and preschools are listed as allowed home occupations in the R-1, R-R, R-W and R-M zones of a Kenai Peninsula Borough Local Option Zoning District under KPB…

A home occupation in a Kenai Peninsula Borough Local Option Zoning District may advertise with only 'one permanent sign no greater than 16 square feet,' and that sign 'may not be…

Outside Kenai, Soldotna, Homer, Seward, Seldovia and Kachemak, the Kenai Peninsula Borough runs no animal control code, Title 8 sits reserved, so chicken and small-animal limits exist…

In the Kenai Peninsula Borough outside the cities, dog and cat limits exist only inside an adopted Local Option Zoning District; Title 8 Animals otherwise sits reserved. Inside a…

In an adopted Single-Family Residential (R-1) Local Option Zoning District, KPB 21.44.160(C)(6) allows garages, barns, storage sheds, greenhouses, wind turbines, workshops and one…

In an adopted Residential Waterfront (R-W) Local Option Zoning District in the Kenai Peninsula Borough outside the cities, KPB 21.44.175(D)(6) lists accessory dwellings among the…

In an adopted Residential Waterfront (R-W) Local Option Zoning District in the Kenai Peninsula Borough outside the cities, KPB 21.44.175(D)(6) allows up to two small rental cabins…

Inside an adopted Single-Family Residential (R-1) Local Option Zoning District in the Kenai Peninsula Borough outside the cities, KPB 21.44.160(C)(4) caps the ground footprint of…

In the Kenai Peninsula Borough outside the cities, yard setbacks exist only inside an adopted Local Option Zoning District. KPB 21.44.160(C)(1) sets the Single-Family Residential (R-1)…

In an adopted Single-Family Residential (R-1) Local Option Zoning District in the Kenai Peninsula Borough outside the cities, KPB 21.44.160(C)(2) caps building height at two and a half…