Kenai Peninsula Borough, AK Property Maintenance: Property Blight (2026)

KPB Chapter 21.16, Fire and Health Nuisances, gives the planning commission authority in the unincorporated Kenai Peninsula Borough to issue an order to show cause why a building that is a fire hazard, health hazard or public nuisance should not be condemned. KPB 21.16.010 requires at least 30 days' notice to the owner or the owner's agent before a hearing is held on that order. If the commission recommends removal or demolition after the hearing, the borough assembly may order the building removed or demolished, but the owner still keeps at least 30 more days after the commission hearing to remove the building voluntarily before the borough proceeds itself.

If the borough ultimately performs the removal, the cost is charged first against any salvaged material sold at public auction, and any remaining balance is charged against the land itself, collected the same way as delinquent property taxes. Because the borough has no building code and no general zoning outside local option zoning districts and the named subdivisions, this nuisance-abatement chapter, rather than a housing or property-maintenance code, is the borough's only tool for a genuinely dangerous or derelict structure in the unincorporated area; it reaches condemnation and demolition, not routine blight like unmowed lots or peeling paint, which the borough does not regulate at all outside these hazard findings.

A prior existing structure already declared a nuisance, health or fire hazard under KPB 21.16.010 also loses its grandfathered status for continued use within the Kenai River habitat protection district under KPB 21.18.090(C)(5).