County Planning Board Continues
Review Of Subdivision Ordinance
BY SUSAN USHER
Brunswick County Planning
Board members were to continue
Wednesday night sifting through a
proposed new subdivision ordi
nance and a stack of suggestions
from developers and others for
changcs and deletions in the rules.
The board met last Wednesday
night for more than two hours, ap
proving preliminary plats, but beg
ged off going through the subdivi
sion ordinance paperwork until staff
could organize it in more digestible
form. Among other things several
changes recommended jointly by
Planning Director John Harvey and
County Manager/Attorney David
Clegg will be blended into the pro
posed ordinance for review. These
include extending the date the ordi
nance would take effect to Jan. 1,
1992, and allowing several excep
tions to the DOT standards for
pavement width of streets.
Before continuing the meeting
until 7 p.m. Wednesday, however,
the board heard from developers
who came for an itcm-by-item re
view "because," said one. Dean
Walters of Sea Trails Corp., "there
arc some tremendous concerns."
He and others ask ed the board to
delete a provision in the ordinance
that would require a developer to
guarantee that improvements such
as streets will be completed within
two years of the date the final plat is
recorded.
Board member Jerry Jones said
the intent of the provision is to in
sure that promised improvements
are completed within a reasonable
length of time and that the work is
"done and done right".
Developers would have the op
tion of not filing a final plat for ap
proval until the required improve
ments are completed.
If they chose instead to guarantee
the work, options include providing
a surety bond, cash deposit or
equivalent equal to the cost of in
stalling the improvements, or an ir
revocable letter of credit issued by a
bank in a form approved by the
county attorney, or a combination of
the above.
If a subdivision is to be devel
oped in sections, the planning direc
tor would have the discretion of not
requiring use of a guarantee in cer
tain circumstances. These include if
each scction is 1) not larger than 25
lots or housing units or 25 percent
V)f the square footage in structures
in a non-residential planned unit de
velopment; or 2) 50 percent of the
total number of lots in a subdivision
or housing units in a planned unit
development, which may be less
than 25 lots, but with 25 lots the
maximum area over which a waiver
would be allowed.
Walters said some of the county's
major developments, such as Sea
Trail Plantation and Lockwood Fol
ly, "would not have been possible"
had that requirement been in effect
when they were developed.
Two board members, John Bar
bee and Alfonza Roach, expressed
concerns of their own about the re
quirement. Bar bee, an insurance
man, said he didn't think developers
would be able to obtain surety
bonds for such work.
Walters contended that the Inter
state Land Sales Registration Act
and HUD disclosure statements arc
sufficient to address concerns about
unscrupulous developers.
However, Harvey said the Insti
tute of Government has advised the
county that such guarantees arc not
uncommon. Richard Ducker of the
Institute staff advised the depart
ment that a HUD disclosure form
was an "unacceptable" substitute
for performance assurance. He said
a letter of credit is the most widely
used assurance method in the state.
Tom Pope questioned requiring
roads to meet DOT standards other
than paving, suggesting the cost
would be great and the likelihood
slight of eventually turning the
roads over to the state for mainte
nance. "DOT can't maintain what
it's got now," he said.
Bobby Long, a surveyor and de
veloper, also asked that the board ad
dress one oversight in the proposed
ordinance that exists also in the ex
isting subdivision ordinance. While
providing for distribution of property
to heirs, the ordinance docs not ad
dress subdividing of property among
more than one living child. In prac
tice the planning board has routinely
approved such family divisions.
"If you are dead you can give pro
perty to your children," said Long.
"But if you are alive you can't."
Chairman Thomas Dixie assured
those present that the board would
continuing receiving additional pub
lic comment as it works on the ordi
nance.
Planning Board OKs Subdivision Plats
Eleven preliminary subdivision
plats won the approval of the Bruns
wick County Planning Board last
week, with variance approved and
one plai tabled until modifications
could be redrawn.
Meeting Wednesday night at the
county government center in Boli
via, the board also approved one
right-of-way variance.
Plats approved were as follows:
?Waterside, a 28-loi development
in Shallotte Township on the west
side of Whispering Pine Street
?Freedoms Star, a 21 -lot develop
ment in Shallotte Township on Free
doms Star Road off Etheridge Road.
?Applegate, six lots from a tract
near the end of Shcpard Road in
Smithville Township, with a vari
ance from the 60-foot right of way
requirement. However, the require
ment would have to be met before
further development or subdivision
of the land is allowed other than
that fronting the main road.
?Sanders Forest, a 40-lot subdivi
sion in Lockwood Folly Township
on a private street off Royal Oak
Road, with the plat to show that at
least 10 lots may not be suitable for
use ground absorption septic-tank
type waste disposal systems. Lot by
lot evaluations will be required.
?Sea Village addition, a revision in
creasing the number of proposed
lots from 282 to 381, wilh waler
and sewer to be provided on or off
site.
?Unnamed development, increased
from previously proposed 151 lots
to 250, in Shallotte Township on the
west side of Calabash Road north of
Ocean Forest. Off-site sewer is
planned. The lots arc too small for
wells and there is a concern that
drainage outlets may be inadequate.
The developers arc to check with
N.C. Department of Transportation
to make sure culvert under S.R.
1300 is of proper size to handle
drainage from this subdivision and
Carolina Shores North, or needs to
be replaced. A stormwatcr drainage
plan is to be submitted for approval
by Walt Marlcy, county soil hydrol
ogist.
?Lakcwood Estates, Section D,
Phase I, in Shallotte Township, cre
ates 19 lots, two of which arc not
suitable for modification for septic
tank use, some first requiring fill
and seven requiring natural soil not
backfill.
?Unnamed 61 -lot subdivision on
Stone Chimney Road in Lockwood
Folly Township, one-year extension
of conditional preliminary plat ap
proval.
?Stone Chimey Ridge, Section
Three, a 17-lot subdivision addition
in Lockwood Folly Township off
Stone Chimney Road. Approximat
ely 10 lots are low and do not meet
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?Eagle's Nest, Section Three, a
500-acre plus tract oil Dogwood
road in Northwest Township divid
ed into 74 lots and 69 larger tracts
of 10 or more acres each. Thirty of
the 74 small lots have soils not suit
able for septic tank installation and
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?Unnamed 12-lot subdivision in
Lockwood Folly Township on west
side of Holdcn Beach Road, lot size
adequate for septic tanks for most
lots with provision of county water,
with developer to work with DOT
on coordinating driveway outlets
ontoN.C. 130.
?Wildwood Village, third addition
consisting of 32 lots off Mintz Road
in Shallotte Township, with approx
imately three lots unsuitable for
septic tank installation.
Planning board members recom
mended several changes before ap
plicants Jan K. Dale, Lloyd Milli
kcn and Jim Sloffel (D.M.S., Inc.)
resubmit a proposal for a 335-lot
subdivision on the east side of N.C.
130 West in Shallotie Township. A
"significant number" of lots are not
suitable for installation of septic
tank or other ground absorption sys
tems and access to lots along N.C.
130 needs to be modified. The
board agreed that a frontage or ser
vice road would meet the needs of
the proposed 60 commercial lots,
while reducing the number of drive
ways exiting directly onto White
villc Road.
The board also granted a right-of
way variance to Joseph D wight
Sims for the creation of three lots,
ranging from 3.11 acres up, con
necting to a 20-foot cartway trail to
60-foot wide Barbecue Road in
Cypress Cove subdivision, the ap
plicant said he had been unable to
obtain 60-foot right of way from the
property owner along the cartway.
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Hamster Rescued
Shallotte firefighter Danny Roden rescued a hamster from the
smoke-filled interior of the Mike Chadwick residence in Green
Hay Village Thursday afternoon. Firefighters from Shallotte,
Civietown and Tri-Beach responded to the fire, which apparently
began in an end bedroom, Shallotte Fire Chief Tim Carter said.
Damage was limited primarily to smoke.
DSS Board Lacks Quorum
The Brunswick Couniy Board of
Social Scrviccs failed to aitain a
quorum for its May 20 meeting.
Social Services Director Jamie
Orrock said pending business would
be handled at the June meeting rath
er than by calling a special meeting.
The board's next regular meeting
is 5:30 p.m. June 24 in the new so
cial scrvicc? building board room at
the county government center in
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