The three anti-cruise ship petitions circulating in Juneau didn’t get enough signatures on them to submit by Wednesday’s deadline, said Cruise Control, the group behind the movement. If those petitions made it to the city’s voting ballot in OCT 2021, would have proposed a limit on cruise ships from 7 am to 7 pm, no Saturday visits, and no ships over 100,000 gross tonnage. Despite the petitions not gaining the required signatures, Cruise Control submitted a demand letter to the mayor and Juneau Assembly saying: “Juneau residents have real issues with cruise tourism impacts in our community that require a strong show of leadership from the Assembly. We have waited for decades for CBJ leaders to act. The time is now.” The group needed just under 3,000 signatures on each of the three petitions in order to get the questions on the ballot.
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