KENAI -- The city of Kenai is working on a road that will provide legal access to the southern bank of the mouth of the Kenai River.
The road would allow dipnetters seeking salmon to avoid crossing private property.
The Peninsula Clarion, a Kenai newspaper, reports the city is obtaining permits for the road from the Army Corps of Engineers.
The 1,500-foot gravel road would cross a wetland owned by the city.
The proposed road would curve around property on the beach owned by Jason Yeoman.
Yeoman says nearly every person who fished at the mouth had to go through his property last year.
That route also required dipnetters to travel through tidal areas where vehicles can become stuck in soft sand and clay.