LAKE AND PEN. BOROUGH v. LOCAL BOUNDARY

Nos. S-5476, S-5485.

885 P.2d 1059 (1994)

LAKE AND PENINSULA BOROUGH, Petitioner, v. LOCAL BOUNDARY COMMISSION, State of Alaska and City of Ekwok, et al., Respondents. CITY OF EKWOK, City of New Stuyahok, City of Clarks Point, Koliganek Village Council, Koliganek Natives, Ltd., Stuyahok Ltd., Ekwok Natives, Ltd., Choggiung, Ltd., Aleknagik Natives, Ltd., Manokotak Natives, Ltd., and Saguyak, Ltd., Inc., Cross-Petitioners, v. LOCAL BOUNDARY COMMISSION, et al., Cross-Respondents.

Supreme Court of Alaska.

December 2, 1994.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Bruce E. Falconer, Hicks, Boyd, Chandler & Falconer, Anchorage, for petitioner.

Don Clocksin, Sonosky, Chambers, Sachse, Miller, Munson & Clocksin, Anchorage, and Frederick Torrisi, Dillingham, for respondents and cross-petitioners.

Marjorie L. Odland, Asst. Atty. Gen. and Bruce M. Botelho, Atty. Gen., Juneau, for respondents and cross-respondents.

Before MOORE, C.J., and RABINOWITZ, MATTHEWS, COMPTON and EASTAUGH, JJ.


OPINION

COMPTON, Justice.

I. FACTUAL AND PROCEDURAL BACKGROUND

This controversy concerns a portion of the Nushagak-Mulchatna watershed in Southwest Alaska. The Lake & Peninsula Borough (Borough), incorporated in 1989, originally encompassed a portion of the watershed within its northwest boundary. The "Nushagak villages"1 and other respondents/cross-petitioners (Villages) are not located within the...

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