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Page !-A—THE BRUNSWICK BEACON. Ttiiirsday, March K. 1987
Land Use
Plan Changes
NmV^I ww«
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dustry that would be detrimental to
our development as a tourism and
retirement area."
The policy statements will be used
a guidelines for more specific actions
or regulations to be adopted by the
town board. “That way," said
Harbeck, “you have the basis for a
decision other than what looks good
that day."
And while the CRC likes specifics,
he added, “A lot of towns like to be
deliberately vague. That is your op
tion too.”
Public boating access along the
Shallotte River was a top priority in
the 1981 plan, but Monday night the
show of hands was 6-4 over whether
that to biclude it in the new plan. The
town decided In investigate the
feasibility of a public ramp.
While desirable in theory, there
were questions about its practicality.
"Is there anywhere we can put u boat
launch in town that wouldn't be a
public nuisance?” asked .Alderman
Wilton Harrelson.
FOURTEEN members of the South Brunswick Islands
Chamber of Commerce Board of Directors Monday en-
SIAJf PMOIO e» IIIA W«IM
dorsed the Shallotte Bypass location proposed for a
rcst/information center.
A consensus was clear for a more
positive policy regarding
agricultui-al land use in town and for
the desirability of preserving the
turn-of-the-century Sunnysidc
School, moved 'oy the town in the ear
ly 1970s to its existing location in
Shallctte Park. Said Planning Board
member Jack Harrison, “It’s
something that definitely needs to be
addressed. It could be a community
project."
As for a preservation policy regar
ding other historic structures. Plann
ing Board member “Sonny”
Stanaland noted, "It's too little and
too late. Most of them have already
been torn down."
In the 1981 plan, numerorus
references were made to plans to
revise the tomi’s zoning ordinance.
.Many of the statements were very
vague, said Harbeck, and many of
them also were never made.
Members of both town boards agreed
a major review and updating of the
ordinances are needed.
Harbeck will use the material
gleaned Monday in writuig a first
draft of the update for the boards' in
spection.
At an earlier meeting the two
boards set top priorities in terms of
growth issues affecting the town. At
the top of the list with ratings of “3”
were the following: traffic onU.S. 17;
traffic at the post office; need for a
larger sewer system capacity; Inap
propriate mixing of various land
uses; getting on and off of U.S. 17 in
the business district; surface runoff
to the Shallotte River and develop
ment conflicts along the river; inade
quacies of the zoning ordinance; lack
of year-round jobs and industry;
need to square town boundaries; and
poor traffic circulation due to street
patterns.
Completion of the Shallotte bypass
is expected to relieve some traffic
and parking problems and to redirect
expansion toward the west rather
than In a strip along .Main Street. The
boards decide to eliminate from the
revision as unnecessary earlier
policies that encouraged new streets
parallel to U.S. 17 and “compact"
development where services could be
readily provided.
LaneJowners Not Begging For Water
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repeated use. The fund was established with u $1.5
million budget allocation in the 1986-87 budget.
Relief for individual hardship cases can be .sought
from the county commissioners. Gore said, but “that
can’t be the rule."
Elwocd Lovett of Holiday Ranches .said the group
that would most benefit from the area getting water “is
the real estate people" because they could recover their
costs in the price of lots sold. Saying most Ranches pro
perty owners are not full-time residents and don't want
the water, he suggested leaving the coriununity out of the
district.
The only speaker besides Fcagan to support the pro
posal, Clement Moran, said .sanitation conditions alone
are sufficient to warrant the project.
District No. t consists of Holiday Acres. Holiday Ran
ches, Holiday Pines and G & H Potter subdivisions north
of the Holden Beach Causeway. A majority of the 437 pro
perty owners are not full-time residents: most of these
have not indicated in writing or otherwise whether they
want to be assessed for county water service. They were
mailed four-page preliminary notices of assessment
earlier this month. Three have responded: one for the
assessmerit pFuject, oiie agairist and one simply asking
questions, said Harvey.
An adjoining subdivision. Barefoot Bay. has asked to
be included in the district but can’t be, said UOB member
Alfonzo Roach, because the process has already begun.
The district is one of seven areas targeted as the first
to qualify for the program.
Deiaity of housing, number of lots and proximity to a
water main were among the factors used to set priorities
among 28 areas candidates narrowed from an original
"most deserving of a water system," indicated Planning
Director John Harvey, staff coordinator for the utility
board.
In the north Holden Beach area, he added, the water
is needed. If all lots were developed at will, he said, in 10
years residents would be pumping salt water from the
wells across the area, not just in isolated spots.
Projects have moved up on the priority list in the past
week, with the decision by Sunset Beach to extend water
service to the Seaside Station area of Seatrail, which was
the No. 2 project listed. Now second is the grouping of
Shangrila-Brunswick Shores in the Brick Landing area.
Said Chester Parrish of Brunswick Shores, "Send it
on to Mr. (Marvin) Stanley and me. We’ll pay the assess
ment fee and help dig the ditch."
Town Creek Sets
Barbecue Dinner
Underground Lines Talked
The Town Creek Township
Volunteer Rescue Squad will serve
barbecue and chicken plates beginn
ing at 11 a.m. March 21 at the rescue
squad building.
The menu includes a choice ol
barbecue pork, cole slaw, candied
yams and hushpuppies or fried
chicken, potato salad, green beans
and rolls.
Plates will sell for $3 each. Pro
ceeds will benefit the rescue squad.
Correction
It was Associate Extension Agent
Billy Privette, not Billy Barrow, who
coordinated the Brunswick County
Extension Service Big Buck contest
covered in the March 5 issue of The
Brunswick Beacon.
The Beacon apologizes for the er
ror.
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underground lines are the aesthetics,
lack of problems created by flooding
like had occurred on Jan. 1, and less
inainl^nanc?.
The town took no action on the mat
ter, but asked Commissioner Hal
Stanley to get a list of all the lots on
the island so the town can get a figure
on the cost of having the work done
throughout the town.
According to Planning and Zoning
Board Member Sid Swarts, the work
is already being performed on about
99 lots on the west end of the island.
Other Business
In other business commissioners:
•Agreed to a request from .lames
Griffin for the board to ask the U.S.
Army Corps of Engineers to drop its
easement back 30 feet in order for
Griffin to build a subdivision between
Jordan Boulevard. Brunswick Ave.
and the Intracoastal Waterway.
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According to Shallotte Point during the period,
meteorologist Jackson Canady,
temperatures should range from
lows averaging in the upper 30s to
highs averaging in the upper 50s,
with about a half-inch of rain.
For the period of March 3-9,
Canady recorded a maximum high
temperature of 73 degrees on the 7th
aiid a minimum low of 30 degrees on
both the 5th and 6th.
A daily average low of 39 degrees
combined with a dally average high
of 66 degrees, for an average daily
temperature of 52 degrees.
He recorded 0.18 inch of rainfall
HWYS. 211 & 17
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TO Rl lY BYPASS RIGHT-OF-WAY
Board To G/ve Go-Ahead
state Board of Transportation members arc expected to authorize
right-of-way ncqui.sition for the Shallotte bypass when it meets Friday
in Raleigh.
The resolution will spcdly by reference the routing and Uiuiied m.-
cess control plans for the project and direct the Department of
Transportation's Right-Of-Way Branch to begin acquiring the right-of-
way.
Several advance right-of-way acquisitions have previously been
authorized by the board for the project, on which first-phase construc
tion is expected to Ixigin in September.
On the agenda are requests also for additional funds for two other
major local projects.
The Department of Transportation Ls asking for $150,000 for right-
of-way acquisition and utilities for a high-rise bridge to Sunset Beach.
Previously $120,000 had been approver! for preliminary engineering of
the .90-mile facility across the Intracoastal Waterway. Of the latest re
quest, $120,000 would come from federal funds and $30,000 from state
funds.
Also sought is an additional $50,000 for preibninary engineering on
the four-Ianing of U.S. 17 from N.C. 211 north of Supply to N.C. 87 at Bell
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come from federal funds and $12,500 from state funds. The board
previously approvetl $100,000 for preliminary engineering.
Advantages, Disadvantages
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weighed the advantages and disad
vantages of a bypass site versus one
closer to the state line before endors
ing the current proposal.
If the local coiiuminity must staff
the center as proposed by DOT, said
Rcdwinc, the chamber appears to be
a likely group to do it.
However, he is trying to obtain
funds to hire state employees to staff
this center and a similar one to be
built farther up the coast near the
\fj sisls lln?. On® yv\lontiol
source is a share of personal license
tag revenues allocated to the N.C.
Department of Commerce for promo
tion of travel and tourism.
“One reason we’re having so much
trouble with this,” Rcdwinc said, “is
the Division of Travel and Tourism
doesn’t think we will have that much
traffic."
But If traffic is heavy, DOT has
said the facility can be expanded.
Construction of the 4.2-milc bypass
is to begin in September, but it won’t
be completed until 1990. The project
|o port ftff SO.ShhIIs four •snin'* of
U.S. 17 through Brunswick County to
the South Carolina line.
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