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Page -5- Chaixaan George Falkenberg asked board member Harry Schlimper to study the pro posed change and report to the board's September meeting. If approved by the board, It would be submitted to the towi Board of Commissioners which would have to hold a' public hearing before taking final action. In other action, the board discussed a rewrite of ordinance provisions dealing with baach access walkways, steps and raised platform overlooks being prepared by Clyde lamn. The discussion dealt wi«i the width of walkways and steps and the size of platforms and their height and the size of supports. The proposals would req^uire the construction of walkways and steps to cross the primary dune because “pedestrian traffic at grade produces erosion damage and harms vegetation.** lynn said he felt the regulations should prohibit walking across the dune. He said he would continue hifl study of the matter and report later. Falkenberg asked board member John Shedd to study a suggestion by Ballantine that he be given authority to deal with builders who permit woxicers to litter work sites. Under Ballantine's proposal he would have the authority to tell builders to either clean up the construction sites or stop work. Despite the efforts of the Town of Morehead City to block it, the State Board of Transportation has awarded a $7.9 million contract to Gilbert Corporation of Delaware for a new four-lane high-rise bridge to replace the present drawbridge across Bogue BRIDG6 Sound at Atlantic Beach. Construction of the new bridge is expected to — begin in September, and it is scheduled for completion in August of 1987. COMTRACT It will run j\ist east of the present bridge. AWARDED Morehead City, which wanted to keep the drawbridge and for the state to build a new bridge to the west, sought to deny the state the use of its streets for the new bridge. However the courts upheld the state in an action still being appealed. The Town of Pine IQioll Shores sided with Morehead City. Secretary of Transportation W. R. Roberson Jr., said the board decided replacing the draw span was the best solution to the bridge problem along with another bridge to be built in the future farther west. Roberson said during the summer, the Atlantic Beach-Morehead City bridge carries more traffic than any other two-lane bridge in the state. He said the board is con cerned with eliminating traffic congestion in the area as well as the safety factor. oOo Fred and Sally Voelker and their son, Christopher, have lived at 122 Mimosa Boule vard since May. This is a small household for the Woelkers. There ar^ fifteen children in their family but all of them are gone now except Christopher, the youngest. He will OUR NEW Carteret High School this fall. After high school he " " ' " ®^y follow in the footsteps of eleven of his siblings who are presently, or NEIGHBORS have been, in the military. if The Woelkers come from Union Lake, Michigan, where Fred was in the field of recreation for many years. When they were ready to leave the Detroit area they decided that they would like to live in eastern North Carolina, They had come to know the area while visiting their daughter in Jacksonville. They lived in Emerald Isle for a while and moved to Pine Knoll Shores when Fred, who is with Marine Corps Special Services, became theatre Manager at Cherry Point, Sally worked for a time as emergency room clerk .t Onslow Memorial Hospital,
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