SHORE LINE
Published by The Town of Pine Knoll Shores In The Interests Of Its Chizens
Post Office Box 757, Atlantic Beach, N. C. 28512
Volume V - Number 8
August 198^f
Noel Yancey - Editor
Mayor Ken Haller was obviously pleased when he opened the August 1^ meeting of
the PIS Board of Commissioners with the announcement that the John Yancey Motor Hotel
had voluntarily dropped its lawsuit against the town. Since the John Yancey had moved
TOHW YANrirv dismiss the suit "with prejudice," this means it cannot be reinstated
The John Yancey, which owns a vacant ocean front lot on which it hopes
AGAINST TOWN to expand, had filed the suit contending that the zoning limitation of
eight bedrooms per acre was unreasonably restrictive. Since then,
however, the zoning ordinance has been amended to allow 22 rooms^ per acre,
Warren Davis, Beaufort attorney representing the motel, told the Board of Coamis-
• sloners at a public hearing in April that the John Yancey hoped to "totally renovate"
the 18-year-old motel and operate it under a Quality Inn franchise.
At their August session, the commissioners debated and then sent back to the
Planning Board a proposed ordinance which would have banned from the town's residential
areas dish-shaped antennas — such as the one on the Holiday Inn — for receiving tele
vision signals via satellite.
When Commissioner Jack Thompson questioned the proposed ordinance as too restric
tive and suggested the possibility of allowing smaller units, he drew this response
from Marty Hare a Planning Board Member who had sponsored the bant
"We don't care what size they are. We don't want them in town,"
When Commissioners Einily White and Hoot Gibson agreed with Thompson that the ban
would be too restrictive, a motion by Commissioner Fred Libby to enact the ordinance
died for lack of a second. Mayor Ken Haller suggested that the proposal be returned to
the Planning Board and asked Town Attorney Ken Kirkman to assist in drafting an ordinance
that possibly would permit smaller and less conspicuous dish antennas,
Cofflnissioner Thompson told the board that the town could expect deliveiyon a new
mini-pumper fire truck it has ordered within 90 days. At a special meeting on July 10,
the board had voted to buy the new truck, a Pierce, from Lee Fire Eq.uipment and Supplies,
Inc., of Kinston which had offered the lowest bid that met specifications,
Libby told the board that the Duke University Marine Lab plans to conduct a flow
test in -^e canal during September, and Harry Schlimper cautioned folks who see grape
fruit floating in the canal not to be upset. They'll be part of the test.
TOWN OF PINE KNOLL SHORES
Route 3 - Pine Knoll Blvd.
Pine Knoll Shores-MHO, NC
28557
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