§ 14.20.040. Addressing system.

A.

Numbering of addresses shall be based on a uniformly numbered grid system emanating in four quadrants from the primary north-south and east-west base lines described as follows:

1.

The north-south base line is the line common to Ranges 4 and 5 West of the Seward Principal Meridian, Alaska.

2.

The east-west base line is the line common to Townships 1 North and 1 South, being the Seward Base Line, Alaska.

3.

The Seward Principal Meridian and the Seward Base Line are defined by the United States Rectangular Survey System.

B.

The numerical values of the grid system shall be ordered as follows:

1.

The primary base lines are assigned the value of 10000.

2.

At each mile distant in cardinal directions from the base lines the grid is incremented by the value of 1,000, i.e. a location that is 5 miles north of the east-west base line bears the grid address of north 15,000 and a location that is 20 miles east of the north-south base line bears the grid address of east 20000.

3.

There being 1,000 numbers to each mile provides the means to accurately establish an individual address for houses and buildings within a tolerance of 5.28 feet. For example, a house that is located on an east-west street 2,350 feet westerly of grid mile west 33,000 would be correctly addressed by the formula:

2,350 ° (5280°1000) = 445 + 33000 = 33445. Thus 33445 is the correct address for that location on any east-west street west of the primary north-south base line.

C.

Individual addresses shall be assigned using the following conventions:

1.

If there is constructed access to the property, the number shall be assigned based upon the street to which access to the property has been constructed. If access has not been constructed, or if it has been constructed to more than one street, then the address shall be determined using the street most directly faced by the main entrance to the primary improvement on the property. If the property is not improved and no access has been constructed, then the address will be determined using the street to which the property has the most frontage. In any event, if the access crosses another parcel with no dedicated right-of-way, the property owner must provide a copy of a recorded easement or proof thereof to receive a number based upon the street to which access has been constructed.

2.

Houses and buildings on the northerly and easterly sides of streets shall have even numbers.

3.

Houses and buildings on the southerly and westerly sides of streets shall have odd numbers.

4.

Houses and buildings on corner lots shall have an address determined primarily by the location of the main constructed access to a street.

5.

Apartment houses with a common entrance shall have one address.

6.

Buildings with multiple entrances by one common address point shall have an individual address for each individual primary entrance per parcel. The owner may assign additional sequential letters or other identifiers in accordance with postal addressing standards for each primary entrance.

D.

Curvilineal or winding streets and loop streets, not conforming to the cardinal grid, shall be addressed according to the following:

1.

The initial and thereafter the dominant direction of the street shall control which axis of the grid will be used to calculate the beginning number.

2.

The addresses shall be numbered sequentially along the street, based on the distance from the initial address, regardless of change in direction.

3.

Individual addresses shall be assigned according to the convention under KPB 14.20.040(C).

(Ord. No. 2006-05, § 6, 3-14-06; Ord. No. 92-09, § 2(part), 1992)