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Published by The Town of Pine Knoll Shores In The Interests Of Its Citizens
Post Office Box 757, Atlantic Beach, N. C. 28512
YoliiM Y - Nuabsr 5
May
HmI Taneej * Editor
Saa NcConkej, Morehead City attorney and part owner of the Iron Steamer fishing
pier, inn and restaurant, was possibly the happiest person in Fine Knoll Shoi^s on the
afternoon of Hay 8, McGonkey's pleasure case shortly after he pleeuled with the PKS
REBUILDING BAN Steaaer Resort or the Ramada Inn if they are ever aore than half
destroyed fire, stom or whatever, McConkey appeared both sur
prised and delisted when the coaaissioners voted unaninously, on aotion of Gonaissioner
Fred Libby, not to accept the planning board recoaaendation.
In hia plea to the board, McConkey pointed out that the **Iron Steaaer was here long
before the Town of Pine Knoll Shoires,'' and that it attracts thoiisands of tourists to the
who spend aany thousands of dollars here. He also asserted that in case one or aore
s of the Iron Steaaer coaplex were destroyed, insurance would defray the cost of re
ding under the present ordinance but would pay nothing if the ban on rebuilding was
adopted.
**Nothing is forever,** he said, **and certainly not on this beach. Ve face the pros
pect of being wiped out..,Ve don't think this a fair and equitable treatment of us as a
property owner of the town.**
The board also rejected another recommendation of the planning board which would
have required that at least 35 percent of a lot be preserved in its natural state, but
deferred until its June meeting consideration of other zoning changes recommended by the
planning board. One of these proposals would increase from 8 to 20 the number of bedrooms
a hotel or motel could build on an acre of land. Also deferred was action on a proposal
that would confine the construction of new hotels and motels to the area at the east end
of town between the Coral Bay Vest condominiums and the Morehead Ocean Fishing Pier,
ff^ror Ken Haller suggested that action on these proposals be deferred until Ken Kirkman,
town attorney, can draft the proposals in legal language.
At its May meeting, the Board of Commissioners also heard Town Clerk Corinne Geer
outline her budget proposals for the 198^85 fiscal year. She called for a 5 percent pay
raise for all town employees, recommended that Brenda Cor, deputy clerk, be promoted to
the poet of tax collector and given a pay boost of $1,000, and said the employment of an
BOARD REJECTS
Board of Commissioners not to adopt a recommendation of the town
planning board which would have prohibited the rebuilding of the Iron
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