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NEW DEVELOPMENT PLANS OUTLINED Shollofte Enacts Ordinance Restricting Adult Entertainment by uuuii KuriEK those businesses would have to be at least 1,000 feet Owners of massage parlors, peep shows and other from any residential zoning district, church, day care adult entertainment businesses will have to deal with center, school, park, library or cemetery. strict regulations if they ever try to set up shop in Asked if the rules would meet the town's needs, Shallotte. Lewis said, "I hope so...It's a very comprehensive ordi Town officials passed an ordinance Tuesday limiting nance." where such businesses can locate and how they can op- Development On The Way crate. The rules include licensing requirements and pro- While Shallotte officials want to keep adult entertain hibit the businesses from locating near homes, churches ment businesses out of town, they listened cnthusiasti or schools. cally Tuesday night as local engineer Jay Houston dc "I think it's an OK ordinance," Town Attorney Mark scribed plans for two major developments in the works. Lewis said when the town board asked for his opinion. Houston said there arc plans to build a 200,000 "I don't know it's exactly what you want. A lot of this square-foot shopping center complex on N.C. 130 West was taken from Myrtle Beach." between downtown Shallotte and the U.S. 17 bypass. Shallotte Aldermen adopted the same ordinance that The land is owned by Dr. John Ward. has been in effect in Calabash since 1990. Officials say The First phase will include a fast food restaurant, gas they don't know of any plans for an adult entertainment station with convenience store, 100-ioom motel and part business in Shallotte. They want the rules just in case. of the shopping center. "Construction could start within The ordinance defines adult entertainment businesses the next six to eight months on all of this," Houston as clubs used for any "presentation depicting, exhibiting said. or describing specified sexual activities or specified Also in the works is a planned unit development on a anatomical areas for observation by patrons." 74-acre parcel just outside the town limits on N.C. 130 The rules will apply to book stores, theaters, video next to West Brunswick High School. DMS Properties is stores, peep shows, model studios, sexual encounter ccn- developing the land. tcrs, massage parlors, escort services and motels. Houston said the large tract has areas designated for If they cater to adults as described in the ordinance, light industrial and distribution uses, an office park, resi dcntial lots, commercial retail shops and a motel. Shirleen Milliken to set up a proposed vendors market Developers expect a restaurant, motel, two office on A1 StrccL buildings and four light industrial centers to be operating Following a public hearing Tuesday night, aldermen within the first two years. The various land uses will be amended the zoning code to allow flea and vendors mar separated with natural and man-made buffers. kets as conditional uses in the Central Business district. ..... ...... ,. . .. The board later voted to grant a conditional use per mit if^,ng " millhalwi"a"?^Mi,likcns 10csU,blishaccnua"y 11 s USCl Houslon sa,d- located market near their home on A1 Street. The Shaliottc engineer said he wanted to share the Mayor Sarah Tripp said the vendors market will be plans with town officials so they can plan appropriately "manned" at all times. Town officials, especially for sewer system expansion. "The problem right now is Alderman Morris Hall, want to get the vendors off Main how are we going to handle the wastewater," he said. Street. In the first year or two, Houston said development on Other Business the Ward property will generate about 13,000 gallons of In other business Tuesday, aldermen: wastewater per day. The DMS planned unit develop- HAskcd their town attorney to obtain documents out ment will produce about 15,000 gallons per day in the lining why the U.S. Postal Service moved mail-handling first phase. operations from Shalloue Post Office to the new South When both areas arc fully developed, they will gener- Brunswick branch last May. "Unless they destroyed that ate more than 100,000 gallons of wastewater per day, file I think there's going to be some red faces when which is more than the town will be able to handle at its that's revealed," Alderman Wilton Harrclson said, existing plant. HAgrecd to pay American Legal Publishing Corp. Mayor Sarah Tripp plans to appoint a committee of 58,775 over a three-year period for codifying the town aldermen and planning board members to plan for sewer ordinances. Town Clerk Mary Etta Hewett said the town system expansion. will pay S2.500 this fiscal year, S3.510 next year and Vendors Market Coming 52,765 the following year. The ordinances haven't been Town officials have cleared the way for A1 and codified since 1979. Among the many treasures you'll find on all the Brunswick County beaches... Nothing covers Brunswick County better than the Beacon... not even the mosquitoes! Subscribe today... read it every week. 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