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^^ggg0Btf^^^y.^ M'l^? *^>jj|Sawwg^?w*iiri. P JiritJl'i - vriwa mmKg |^ 5 What does one do with a bridge span long? Crews constructing the new i Holden Beach were surprised last v the span and finding that it would nol concrete pillars above. The N.C. Transportation was willing to give th< and to move the misfit to its norma nei Holden P App rove BY TERRY POPE Ur.d that was intended to be zoned commercial five years ago on Holden Beach will finally be changed, provided town commissioners follow the recommendations of the planning and zoning board. Planning and zoning board members voted Tuesday evening to unify all zoning classifications between Rothschild Street, where the town hall is located, to Cole Street, across the Holden Beach Road, to commercial. All lots lying in the area between the Intracoastal Waterway and the ocean will fall under the new commercial zoning regulations if apI mm bupply Ma Following , A Supply man was charged with failing to see a safe movement .Saturday after his truck and utility trailer struck another vehicle near Holden Beach. John Johnson. 64. of Supply, was charged by State Trooper B.C. Jones after his 1974 Kurd pickup truck pulling a utility trailer loaded with fertilizer and tractor parts struck a 1977 Mercury' driven by William Randall Clemmons, 19. of Shallotte. According to Jones' report. Clemmons was passing the Johnson truck when Johnson attempted to make a left turn into a private driveway on nrn 1120 about one mile east of Holden Beach. The tractor equipment and fertilizer obstructed the view of tail ligtits on the rear of the utility trailer, Jones reported. The trailer also did not have reflectors on its bumper, he stated. Johnson's truck struck the Clemmons vehicle on the right passenger side, causing about $3,000 in damage. Johnson's truck received around $1,600 in damage, Jones reported. No injuries were reported in the 10 a.m. accident. ft 1 /'l I H? F w kvHTI |] iTil' ? inrllllB I I n CALL : FOR A FREE WOLF'S WATER SALES " INSTALLAl ION 24 HOUR SERVICE AQUA-RITE WATER PURIFICATION SYSTEA twnuin tfvfirsf owovs ii JERRY WOL SERVING BRUh MEMBtK - SOUTH BBUNSWKK /? < TT KIHrnu, V .A.- . v .~ uch Concrete Decisioni that's one foot too to $150. Town com lighrise bridge at along the east end < reek after .alsing but Coastal Area t fit it place on the move, saying it wns Department of Amos said. Instead ! span to the town, span up into sir nt location for $100 somewhere off the lanning Bo s Zoning Ct proved by the town council. The town must hold a public hearing before adopting the zoning changes. According to Town Manager Bob Buck, the town's land use plan showed the entire area affected by the change listed as commercial property in 1980. The area comprises most of the town's real estate offices and is being used mostly for commercial use. No residents spoke at Tuesday's meeting on the zoning changes. Town council members reviewed a similar rezoning request once before, but sent the proposal back to the planning and zoning board to conn Charged r\LV-iuci 11 A Supply driver was also charged Saturday evening after striking a parked car and leaving the scene of the accident near Belville, Jones reported. Colston Miles Woodard, 32, of Supply. was charged with reckless operation, driving while his license was revoked and driving without insurance following the 3:30 p.m. accident. According to Jones' report, Woodard was driving on State Road 1400 about ten miles west of Belville when he turned around in the roadway and struck a parked car on the shoulder of the ruad. Ottice Bryant of Supply was parked on the shoulder of the road working on his 1977 Dodge when Woodard approached, Jones reported. After striking the front of the Bryant car, Woodard got out of his vehicle and talked with Bryant before leaving the scene. Jones charged Woodard about an hour later. There were no injuries in the accident that caused an estimated $2S in damage to the Woodard vehicle and about $500 damage to the Bryant car. HH r^M PI a j 111 kl I i i % wpVtiVUwA |HV|| |TV*| iflIB li W" 1" IiTMm ^54-9464 WATER ANALYSIS WORKS q?\ Mtk.mii #ik?^i?i -urmi >rui?lDISTILLERS , ^ 10% OfF a LTItS SOfTfHfIS fO* tfMOVfftS 6 F, SR. & JR., IS WICK COUNTY HANDS CHAMhlB Of COMMMCT I :>-'V *' ' . . . .?.... r .MWH- MB StAO PMOIO fiY TERRY POPI ! mlssloners wanted the span to lie >f the beaeh to help combat erosion. Management officials stopped the > against regulations, Mayor Kenner i, mil worRcrs wui now orcaK uie taller pieces and dispose of It, Island, Amos said. ard nanges sider all lots between the two streets for commercial use as stated in the I960 land use plan. Another rezoning request came before the board Tuesday evening to change two lots west of Rothschild Street from residential (R-l) to commercial. A letter was read by Chairman Alan Holden from the applicants, but no action was taken. Hazel L. and Jimmie T. Monroe are requesting that two lots in the R.H. Holden Subdivision near 137 Ocean Blvd. West be changed to commercial. "The new bridge is creating substantial change In the area," the Monroes' letter to the board stated. "The traffic pattern will be changed that will make the land more suitable for commercial purposes." The lots are located Just down from Rothschild Street, where the town liall is located, but outside the area that was changed to commercial Tuesday evening. The Monroes stated that by changing the area to commercial, a "very unique village could develop that would benefit all property owners of Holden Beach. In this way, spot zoning could be eliminated." in otner nu.sine.ss Tuesday, the board agreed to meet Monday, April 22, at 7 p.m. at the town hall to discuss the 1986 land use plan. Policy changes recommended by the Satilla Planning Corp. of Atlanta, Ga., the company developing the town's land use plan, have been presented to the board. Satilla planners have recommended that the board consider whether to include statements concerning the town's stance on 1) future marinas on the island and how they would affect traffic conditions; 2) a floating home ordinance and 3) a drainage plan for storm runoff waters, especially for the canal lots. The land use plan must be adopted by the town by June 1, Buck said. Gayla gar' " Marl OPEN: Monday-Fr Stone Chimney Rood?Vo County I At Revc BY SUSAN USHER A board of private citizens rather than county commissioners will most likely hear revaluation appeals next spring. At a work session on revaluation Tuesday night, commissioners said they will probably follow Tax Administrator Boyd Williamson's recommendation to establish an independent Board of Equalization and Review. "It will hardly be possible for you as commissioners to keep up with everything else going on," he said in making the proposal. Finding qualified people to serve may not be easy, just as the board's task won't be easy, those present agreed. "We don't want a lot of political pressure on the board of commissioners," Ciiairman Chris Cnappcii also warned, referring to an organized effort by taxpayers that pressured a former board of commissioners into rejecting a "horizontal adjustment" in property valuations in January 1982. He and Vice Chairman James Poole later said they thought an independent board would be more qualified. Three Notices Property owners will get three notices on revaluation, the first a re quest to check data on features sucli as numbers of rooms or baths and the second, in September, a brochure on revaluation. County officials needn't expect to hear much public comment until October, Williamson said, when notices of assessed valuations go out and Taxes Rel Brunswick County commissioners quietly approved a $1,578 tax release Monday night for a Yaupon Beach man who leased property to a church. Commissioner Grace Heuslcy voted against the move. TKoro ninu r*Q f$iiinnuolr>n qI Jnmao Poole's motion or the ensuing vote. Two weeks ago, 1..D. Jones told commissioners he leased a lot next to his restaurant in Ixmg Beach to Ocean View United Methodist Church in 1971 for the site for the Agape Inn, a youih mission to combat drug abuse. The church paid him $1 a year, which Jones gave back, until the lease was ended in 1983. When Jones tried to use the lot as collateral for a loan recently, he learned that seven years of back taxes and Interest were due from the period of the lease. "Anybody can see this was a foul up," he said. In 1977 and 1981, Uic only years for which Jones apparently received a tax bill for the lot, he obtained releases or exemptions from the county because it was church property, he told commissioners at a recent meeting. But County Manager Billy Carter At Slsollstts Point ttlMG HOME ATHE w BEACON On idi At JHAUOTTI tOIKT MOCHT 's Beauty Shop -Spring Special? Frosting?$20 iood March 18 April 18 'ha Stanley?Stylist iday 9-5, Saturday 9-12 /se Classes <S Equipment ndoy-Thursday 7 30 p m 842-9940 OR rnamtown 842-6944 ?- **.# - , r , * ^ > V ? # THP RRIlMCWirv Drirnv >uu unwnunivn ociavuii ioard Lc ligation F telephones begin to ring. "Of 70,000 parcels of property, an average of 7,000 or 10 percent of these properties will be brought in because of problems. "I would like to tell you it will be pleasant," he continued. tsreni weisner, revaluation project manager (or W.E. Kerrls Co., said local residents arc more Inquisitive hon jn tnnct CCUPttiSS, pnccihly because they've been through revaluation before. He wants E&R board members to join his staff during its final property review to become familiar with the revaluation process. In recent years commissioners have served as the Board of Equalization and Review. The current board will do so on May 1, a new experience for four of five members. ?UA lnnt WtlUllg OUtVil jvu IO UUVI MIV lUUk revaluation, that meeting should last only about an hour and will probably cover only three or four appeals, predicted Williamson. Next year the board can expect to meet for several months, hearing possibly several thousand appeals. 1978 Values Tax assessments on local real property arc presently based on values arrived at during the 1978 revaluation. The state requires counties to bring assessed property figures in line with market values every eight years. These new values arc basically determined by checking prices brought when properties of similar size, quality, style and located in eimllnp nnlfthK/\rh/?/wlo OIIIUU1I IIV lfSIIL/\'l IH/WI.1 Wl'l U AUUI. eased On L said the exemptions should never have been allowed, adding, "It's a 'Catch 22' situation." The Brunswick County Tax Office ..aid Jones owed the money because he, rather than (he church, held title to the property. The lot would have io* jivomnt if If wttrn i?l I Vu? r wholly owned by the church or I! the Cocaine Ai A Wilmington mun has been arrested and charged with possessing and selling cocaine at a Inland mobile home park, according to the Brunswick County Sheriff's Department. Donald Joseph Morrison, 46, of 1421 Masonboro I -oop Road, Wilmington, was arrested and charged by Dct. Dick Burgess last Thursday with two counts of possession with intent to I Ocean Isle So much, so dos I See our other se of fine dining roi | groupings I i Asia-West Internationc J 8 Hwy 179 of Airport. 5 Cooke Ocean If announces th of the firm's a: Betty1 ai Butch , Thursday, April 18, 1985?Page 5-A oks 3lnn<; This kind of specific information is being stored on computer tape as part of the 1986 revaluation. Uniformity of values for like properties is the goal of the revaluation effort, Williamson noted. Midway between the required revaluations, counties have the oplion of making "horizontal" adjustments such as the one rejected locally in 1982. That study was done by W.P. Ferris & Co. of Charlotte, the same firm that conducted the 1978 revaluation and has a $399,000 contract for the 1986 project. Work on the 1986 revaluation, which will liave a total price tag of about $500,000, actually began in 1984. Thus far, deed transactions from 1983 and 1984 have been transferred to computer and 1985 data is being recorded. 12* inforrnHtion has been stored in a new computer system included in the Ferris contract. Field workers have completed property reviews at Sunset Beach and are 90 percent complete at Ocean Isle Beach. They're in the process of visiting property at Holdcn Beach and l-ong Beach. Wcisncr said his staff plans to complete work in the resort areas before the summer season begins. The E&R board Is the second step in a sometimes lengthy appeals process that begins once notices of property valuations are nulled In October. Revaluation project staff members first meet Informally with taxpayers who have complaints in an attempt to correct any problems found. eased Lot church had not paid Jones the $1 per year to use the land. "We're dealing with a technicality," Tax Administrator Boyd Williamson had told the board. But none of tluit nuittcrcd Monday nl#ht. The board decided neither Jones nor the church should have to pay the taxes. "rest Made sell cocaine and two counts of selling and delivering cocaine. Morrison was arrested at Clark's Mobile Home Park In Iceland. According to llurgcss, he allegedly sold one-eighths ounce and one-fourths ounce of cocaine to utdercover officers. Morrison Is being held In the Brunswick County Jail under (30,000 bond. ! 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