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Impact Fees, BY DOUG R UTTER New impact fees and old penalty claus es are among the issues Holden Beach Commissioners are expected to discuss when they meet next Ttiesday at 7 p.m. in town hall. Town officials held public hearings on both items at their meeting last Wednesday but took no action. Board decisions could come as soon as Tuesday ? a special meeting night for the town board necessitated by the Labor Day holiday. Commissioners are considering charg ing owners of new homes and businesses hefty impact fees so the town will have enough money in the future to design and build sewer and stormwater runoff systems. As proposed, minimum fees would be $1,000 per residence and $2,000 per busi Penalty Clau "Some stay the same and some go up. Nothing is lowered . " ? Wally Ausley, Mayor ness. Fees also would be charged for drive ways, paved parking lots and building addi tions. At last week's public hearing, island de veloper Mark Saunders said he thinks the proposal to charge $1 per square foot for driveways is too high. ses On Holden Beach Age Building a concrete driveway costs about $1 per square foot, he said, and a $1 impact fee would double the cost. He said that's "unreasonable." However, Holden Beach resident Crawford Hart said he likes the proposal of $1 per square foot for paved areas. Hart said he thinks stormwater runoff causes more pollution than septic systems, and the town should discourage people from paving. Jim Lowell, a member of the town's sewer committee, said impact fees are a good way to raise money, but the town board needs to decide when it will stop col lecting the fees. "I would say when the system's paid for the impact fees go out," Commissioner David Sandifer replied. During recent discussions of the fees. commissioners have informally agreed they should have a grace period of 30 days be fore the rules take effect so builders can pass the added costs on to property owners. Saunders, owner of Coastal Development Company, said last week he would like to see at least a six-month period between the time the fee structure is adopt ed and when it takes effect. While immediate action on the impact fees is uncertain, commissioners next week are likely to approve several changes in the penalty clauses included in various town or dinances. Town Attorney Ken Campbell has been working on the changes for several months in an effort to standardize the code. "They're just pretty inconsistent, and it's hard to understand what they mean in some cases," he said. nda Tuesday Under Campbell's proposal, most civil fines would be set at $25 and criminal penalties at $50. "Some of them have been increased and some have not," Mayor Wally Ausley saul of the fines. "Some stay the same and some go up. Nothing is lowered." Among the proposed changes, parking tickets would jump from $10 to $25 and building permit violations would cost $2<Ki instead of $50. Campbell had recommended the town increase its penalty for illegally crossing dune from $50 to $100. However, no change is expected partly because of the number of signs the town has erected in forming people of the amount of the fine Commissioners hope to have the pro posed changes drafted in the form of an or dinance when they meet Tuesday. LONG BEACH WANTS BAN Holden Beach Commissioners Decide To Join Menhaden Battle BY DOUG RUTTER Holden Beach officials plan to join forces with neigh boring Long Beach, which wants state legislation to keep menhaden boats from fishing close to shore. Holden Beach Commissioners agreed last week to support their neighbors to the east in response to an inci dent one month ago when a menhaden boat was seen dumping a brown liquid that later washed up on the strand. At Long Beach, Town Manager Tim Johnson said menhaden boats out of Beaufort have spilled Fish twice in the past month. Following the most recent spill three weeks ago, 45,000 menhaden washed up on the beach. "You couldn't take a step without hitting a fish," said Johnson, adding that the 45,000 menhaden formed a 5 foot-wide path that covered approximately two miles of the beach. Long Beach officials buried the fish, and Johnson said he has billed the company allegedly responsible for the spill, Beaufort Fisheries. Johnson said the company has claimed it wasn't re sponsible, and the owner has tried to blame local shrimpers. Johnson said there were too many menhaden on the beach for a shrimp boat to be involved. Long Beach officials will seek state legislation next year that would prohibit menhaden boats from operating within three miles of the beach. The town manager said the two menhaden spills this summer aren't unusual. "This isn't something new," he said. "This has been going on for years." Currently, the state has no rules limiting how close menhaden boats may come to the local beaches. "I've seen them hit the sand," Johnson said. He said the town wants state legislation because men haden boats have been "irresponsible with their spills." Ivong Beach plans to solicit support for a local bill from other local beach towns. Holden Beach Commissioners plan to give their sup port after hearing reports about a menhaden boat that was spotted dumping an oily, brown liquid into the ocean while working off the beach the last week in July. Barbara Tomlinson, who said she was an eyewitness, said fish washed up on shore the first day she saw the boat operating off the 800 block of Ocean Boulevard West. The next day, she said the boat dumped brown liq uid into the water. Eight Injured In Head-On Collision On Highway 1 7 Eight persons were injured last Saturday when one vehicle trying to pass another on U.S. 17 south of Shallotte struck a third vehicle head on. The two-vehicle accident occur red at 12:20 p.m. 4.1 miles north of Sunset Beach. Charles Merrcll Sikes III, 19, of Camp Lejeune, was southbound on U.S. 17 when he pulled into the left lane in his 1991 Chevrolet truck to pass and overtake another vehicle, reported Trooper T.W. Calder. The truck collided head-on with a recre ational vehicle operated by John Wesley Phillips, 58, of Charlotte. Sikes and his three passengers ? Bruce Dodd, 19, David Lex, 19, and Matthew Saber, 20, all of Camp Lejeune, were taken to The Bruns wick Hospital in Supply with seri ous but non-incapacitating injuries. Phillips received minor injuries, as did his passengers, Robin Thom as, 50, Epoyer Phillips, 61, and Carl Brewer, 47, all of Charlotte. They were also taken to The Brunswick Hospital. Damage to Sikes' track was esti mated at $8,000 and to Phillips' RV, $4,000. Sikes was charged with improper passing and exceeding a safe speed. A young bicyclist was injured Saturday in a 5:20 p.m. accident on COASTAL PEDIATRICS 754-KIDS (5437) James V. Muiholland M.D. Feliow of American Academy of Pediatrics Shallotte Professional Plaza 4428 Main Street ? Shallotte Burlington Cathedral Cabinets by Aristokraft a David Atkinson Home Aristokraft 0cean lsle Beach We install or do it yourself jSEA COAST TRADING CO. i 754-6630 ? 120 Blake St., Shallotte 8 Palmers Branch Road. Stephen Skipper, 16, of Leland, was driving a 1989 Volkswagen north on Palmbers Branch Road when a child riding a bicycle in the same direction turned across the road in front of his car, reported Trooper B.C Jones. Thomas Brandon Jamerson, 7, of Winnabow, was transported to New Hanover Regional Medical Center, Wilmington, with serious, but non incapacitating injuries. No charges were filed. Damage to the car was estimated "Wc sat there and watched it wash in. It was just an just gunky, oily, brown stuff." oily, brown liquid that stayed together," she said. "It was Johnson said the area needs to stop fish spills or risk about the size of two football fields and smelled just aw- injury to its leading industry ? tourism. Ful." He also said that if commercial boats are allowed to Tomlinson said the slick wasn't visible the next day. catch all of the menhaden, nothing will be left for sport "Whatever it was, was really nasty," said Tomlinson, fishermen, who use the fish for bait. i Virginia school teacher and Holden Beach homeowner. Menhaden are caught commercially for oil and f ish 'It didn't appear to have any remnants of fish. It was meal. Summer Clearance Sale Now In Progress! Perfection ? Hotline ? G&S Surfboards ? Rusty Billabong ? Bucci ? Ocean Pacific ? Panama Jack Hobie ? Bubble Gum ? Citrus ? Sessa B Z Body Boards ? 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