In a nearly three-hour City of Kenai Planning and Zoning work session, the planning commission reviewed 14 pages of resident-submitted critiques on the early stages of the city’s Comprehensive Plan.

When the work session closed, the commission still had 39 pages to review. They will host another work session Nov. 14 to finish reading the comments.

Eighty-three percent of the moose calves collared this year in an Alaska Department of Fish and Game calf mortality study died, according to the study’s findings.

The study started in February as a subcomponent to an ongoing examination of the moose populations in Game Management Units 15A and 15C on the Kenai Peninsula, areas targeted for intensive management, said Jeff Selinger, Fish and Game Kenai area wildlife biologist.

At Wednesday’s Kenai City Council meeting, Council Member Bob Molloy requested more time for people to comment on the city’s Comprehensive Plan.

“It’s a really important document,” he said, “and 14 days including Saturdays and Sundays after it’s been presented and explained to the public is too short a time period.”

The city presented the plan at an open house Oct. 5 and set a two week public comment period.

Molloy said several people have told him two weeks is not enough, and Kenai resident Mark Scharg, 58, was one of them.

The City of Kenai and the Federal Aviation Administration will cut more than 2,000 trees obstructing Kenai Municipal Airport flight paths this December.

This phase of the Kenai Municipal Airport Obstruction Tree Removal Project targets 1,213 trees for selective cutting and removal, and 779 trees for partial cutting on city and airport property, Airport Manager Mary Bondurant said. This phase will also clear cut and seed 7.5 acres in the airport’s fencing, she said.

FAA’s deadline for the project is Sept. 15 of next year.