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BY SUSAN USHER
With the help of a proposed state
access grant, the old ferry landing on
Ocean Isle Beach could become the
town's first official public access
area for estuarine waters.
Mayor 1-aDane Bullington said
Monday that she envisions a boardwalk.
benches for fishermen and a
parking area along the waterway at
the head of Shallotte Boulevard.
And. at the foot of the road, where
erosion has taken its toll in the past,
the town proposes additional oceanIV/...*
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"It is gorgeous down there." she
said of the ferry landing, with Coin-,
missioner Marvin Stanley agreeing.
"We would have the prettiest access
area you could imagine."
The two areas would enhance what
she says Ocean Isle Beach already
has?"the best access situation in
this whole county."
Mayor Bullington. Building Inspector
T.I). Koberson and other
employees have met with Bill Benton.
county engineer with the N.C.
Department of Transportation, and
with Julie Shambaugh. shorcfront
access coordinator with the Office of
Coastal Management, and plan to
talk with Hub Moum uf uie N.C.
Department of Natural Resources
and Community Development Wilmington
office.
For the project to work, the town
would have to take over only those
portions of Shallotte Boulevard
i which has been state-maintained in
the past) needed to develop the access
areas.
"Something needs to be done 011
Shallotte Avenue anyway." added
Koberson, to keep vehicles from
heading toward the oceanfront thinking
the road extends farther than it
does.
Commissioners authorized the
mayor to continue preparing the
Brant proposal for final approval at
the board's Sept. 9 meeting and submission
to the Office of Coastal
Management before the Sept. 18
deadline.
If approved the grant funds will
come from beach/estuarine water
access funds approved by the state
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In another planning effort, the
town voted to hire Talbert, Cox &
Associates of Wilmington to do the
1986 update of the town's land use
plan at a cost of $9,000.
The town has received an $8,000
planning grant from the Office of
Coastal Management, which it will
match with $1,000 cash and $1,000 in
in-kind services.
The firm, one of three interested in
the project, created the 1981 report.
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research, rather than starting over.
"We need to update the old, but little
has changed," said the mayor.
"We need to look at some new things
such as thoroughfare plans, sidewalk
planning, solid waste management."
And in this plan the town must
cover storm hazard mitigation and
post-disaster planning.
"We want to make sure we're getting
something useful for our money,
something that will do the town some
good."
Trash Collection
Mayor Bullington appointed Commissioner
Debbie Fox to head a committee
to investigate alternative
ways to supplement the town's trash
collection service, specifically during
the much busier summer months.
Since June 1984 the town has added
196 residential units, the mayor said.
"So far?we've got the trash
anyway," she said.
But the town needs to explore hiring
a commercial firm to supplement
its regular service, she added.
Koberson said that the town runs
up to three trash trucks, which haul
up to a total of nine loads per day,
especially at the first of the week.
Extra pickup is needed most on
weekends because Saturday is the
day one group of renters checks out
and another checks in, each move
generating trash.
However, Mayor Bullington said
that any effort to expand weekend
collection efforts is complicated by
landfill hours. The tranfer station
and landfill close at 5 p.m. Saturday,
an expansion of hours from last summer.
but close on Sundays after a
brief experiment at the start of the
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Erosion Control
Ocean Isle's sedimentation and
erosion control ordinance is good
enough to serve as a model for the
state, Mayor 1-aDane Bullington
reported after she and Roberson met
Tuesday morning with Gerald
Kraynack of Wilmington and Taylor
Currin of Raleigh, both employees of
the land mialitv sprtinn of fhn M f
Department of Natural Resources
and Community Development.
Jacksonville and Ocean Isle are the
only towns or counties in Kraynack's
district that have ordinances other
than the state's. Revised minimum
standards applicable statewide will
go into effect in late December or
mid-January?even at Ocean Isle,
where the mayor said, "We got an
A-plus, 100 percent, a 10!
"There was nothing blowing or
running off anywhere," she said.
The officers toured the beach and
also inspected files and records and
studied the existing ordinance.
Other Business
In other business, commissioners:
Agreed, at a citizen's reminder, to
send out notices again in water bills
reminding homeowners that house
numbers are required by the town,
particularly to aid in finding a home
in case of an emergency. Roberson
said that only about half of the town's
1,500 units are numbered.
Agreed to have the town's street
markers repainted and street signs
erected at First and Second Streets.
Heard that complaints about
overgrown lots and an unoleasant
odor from a sewage package plant
had been investigated.
After a public hearing at which no
comments were heard, voted to add
utility stations and substations to the
zoning oiuiiiance as perrratteu uses
in single-family and two-family
residential areas. The change was
recommended by Attorney Klva Jess
to accommodate the main sewer
system puinp station at the corner of
(.aurinburg and Second streets and
similar structures, eliminating the
need for requests for variances. The
structures must be designed of
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Ocean Isle policemen, firefight
building inspector will soon be able t<
of emergency medical treatment 011
cident.
Seventeen men and women, nw
of the community, town employee
began a first rcsponder course last
Terry Barbee said. The class me>
Thursdays at 7 p.m. at the fire statio
the Shallotte Volunteer Rescue Squ
structor, assisted by Dale Gaffney a
Barbee said make-up classes ar
anyone else interested in signing up.
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The first responders will particulai
work of three EMTs who either live o
ly at the beach?Dale Gaffney, Mart;
Evans.
A need for a first responder corp
become increasingly evident at the b
several months.
As Police Chief Jerry Gurgar
other structures in the neighborhood,
said the mayor, so as not lo be an
"eyesore."
left the filing fee for municipal offices
unchanged, at $6.
Heard that Mayor 1-aDane Bullington
would attend a regional
emergency management workshop
in Greenville today.
Received copies of the town's
codified ordinances, which collects
into one volume all town ordinances,
such as sediment and erosion control,
subdivision, animal control, flood
control, zoning, etc., and the town
charter in a single volume. After a
final proofing and publication, copies
will be sold at cost to the public, as
will copies of a second volume in
development, "Building On The
Beach," which excerpts all items
related to lillildimt niTmitc wnOm.,.
tlon and development.
Heard from Police Chief Jerry
Cur^aiius that the town's peddling
ordinance was facing a test of its constitutionality
in Brunswick County
Superior Court on appeal of a ease in
which the ordinance was upheld in
district court. He said that the beach
community had experienced a rash
of larcenies last week as had other
communities in the south end ol ttie
county.
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Heard from Building Inspector
T.D. Roberson that 15 building permits
were issued in July, with {9328
in fees collected on construction with
a valuation of $621,000. Only |iermit
was for a duplex, one for a commercial
building, the rest for singlefamily
housing or repairs, lie said
applications for multi family permits
were on hold, apparently pending
completion of the town sewer system.
Voted to have Henry Von Oesen &
Associates do the design work for
water line extensions to Ocean Isle
Resort complex on the west end. The
town has the work done to its spocficiutions.
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An ambulance has come over here
a week all summer."
accident involved a young girl who
i a pickup truck, in an eariier water
iers drowned,
the town's other policmen and
T.D. Roberson arc enrolled, and
he will return to the town board to
uip town cars.
sics offered in the course are carscitation,
clearing of the airway, adgen
and other basics intended to help
n and determine the extent of ill
each is served by the Shallotte
Squad, with the base located in
ibcrs scattered across a wide area
Sunset Beach.
one's fault." Barbee said, it
while for the rescue squad to arrive
le tbne required for the trip to the
il at Supply may vary considerably
iffic conditions.
Barbee said, having made one
n car, "it seems like forever."
ordinance, the developer or other affected
parties must reimburse the
full cost, first putting up 25 percent of
the project cost in advance. Design
work will cost no more than $2,000,
with a total project cost of about
$19,000.
The bill for county water used in
.Inly came to $10,025 111, Clerk Alberta
Talum reported. While the town
was not damaged by Hurricane Bob.
Inspector Itobcrson said renters used
hoses to wash sand off the decks,
rather than waiting for it to dry and
sweeping it away That could account
for any high water bills homeowners
received, he added
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