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County residents turned out in
small numbers last week for area
land use workshops sponsored by the
county planning board and board of
commissioners.
The meetings continued this week
wnn a session at Sunset Beach Monday
night and at the Town Creek
Township Park building at 7 p.m.
Tuesday. The next meeting in the
series will be held at 6:30 p.m. today
(Wednesday), in the auditorium of
the CP&L Visitors Center in
Southport. A final meeting in the
series?geared toward organized
groups?begins at 6:30 p.m. Thursday
in the public assembly building
at the Brunswick County Government
Center. Meetings were held
earlier in Northwest, Lockwood Folly
and Waecamaw townships.
The purpose of the sessions is to get
an idea of the concerns and issues
that should be addressed when the
county planning department updates
viic cuuiiij a v_ i.Ki.tun hica management
Act land use plan.
Members of the county planning
staff at the Ixickwood Folly Township
session at the Holden Beach Town
Hall said they came with no
preconceived ideas of what to expect?just
to hear whatever concerns
came up, whether or not they related
directly to the land use plan.
They noted the differences in concerns
expressed at that meeting and
the Northwest Township meeting
earlier in the week, where zoning and
sewer dominated the discussion.
At Holden Beach, several speakers
criticized the heavy amount of litter
they see along roadsides.
"The people living here or the
visitors here have no pride in this
county," said Graham Justice, a
mainland resident who aired several
"pet peeves."
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Another mainland resident, ]
Christine Dosher, recommended
replacing the county green boxes
with a county door-to-door collection
service as is used by municipalities.
Both Justice and Dosher expressed
concern for water quality and the use
of septic tanks on barrier islands and
along waterways such as rivers ana
canals without stricter setback requirements.
Mrs. Dosher said pollution
is ruining the waterways, which
she described as the place where
most people in the county "except the
realtors and developers" make their
living.
Ms. Dosher also expressed concern
for the, in effect, lass of use by state
taxpayers of the west end of Holden
Beach with the erection of a barricade
across Ocean Boulevard West.
"Our tax dollars paid for the road
and the bridge for them to get to their
private beach," she said. "I feel one
is just as fair as the other."
She recommended that monitoring
be continued on closed landfills and
that members of the county planning
board be elected by the public rather
than appointed by county commissioners.
Whatever steps the county is going
to take to protect its rivers or its
future, she said, "it needs to start
now" before there's nothing left to
save.
Graham King, a Holden Beach
commissioner and resident of the
island, said the proposed elimination
of the property tax would be "quite a
blow" to Brunswick County and most
of its towns. He wondered out loud
how it would affect their ability to
provide services and keep up with
development demands.
"I see many problems with
eliminating it," said Commissioner
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Sid and Norma Swarts, Holden
Beach residents, praised the land use
plan adopted by the county in 1981 as
"excellent." with one cautionary
statement.
"The problem isn't in having a
plan, it's in implementing it. We have
a good plan. We just need to follow
through."
He proposed enacting zoning
within the five-mile strip along the
coast, prompting Love to predict
"token" zoning by the county in the
near future.
"I think people want it, but they
don't like the word," he said as he
has in the past. "It's a dirty word."
Jim Monroe ol Holden Beach said
providing services costs money, and
proposed using public assistance
clients and prisoners for labor to take
some of the demand off of local
government.
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