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Volume 63/ Number 14
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A yachtsman rows his tender back across the
Southport yacht basin after shopping ashore for
food. Migrating sailboats are frequent visitors in the
Photo by Jim Harper
basin while others employ an anchorage in
Dutchman Creek, just off the Intracoastal Water
way, for overnight stops.
Zoning to protect others
Too late for quarry,
opponents ask change
By Terry Pope
County Editor
A long list of changes to the county
zoning ordinance probably wouldn’t
affect Martin Marietta's proposed rock
quarry north of Southport.
However, if passed the amendments
would protect other parts of the county
in the future, mine opponents say.
It'll take another month before
■ Brunswick County Planning Board
members can wade through the
[ lengthy request from organizers of
the Brunswick Anti-Mining Alliance,
a citizens group opposed to the Mar
tin Marietta project.
They now hope to patch a zoning
ordinance that did not keep Martin
Marietta out of their neighborhood
near Bethel Church Road. The firm
received its final building permits from
the county last week.
Led by Robert Quinn, the group
hopes to ban mines, quarries, animalr
slaughtering and processing plants,
junkyards. hazardous materials treat
ment facilities, below- and above
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‘The theory behind the changes pro
posed are to attain a level of conformity
in the land use plan and zoning or
dinance that compliments what Bruns
wick County has evolved into as a
residential, resort and retirement area
and one of the fastest-growing tourist
spots in the State of North Carolina
Robert Quinn
Martin Marietta opponent
ground storage tanks and incinerators
from the county. They stated their
case to planners at a public hearing
last week.
"This is the first stepof a multi-step
process." said John Thompson, plan-,
ning board chairman. It may take an i
ad hoc committee to study the amend
merits, since they are so numerous.
I'm going to raise that question,
because that's a lot of material," he
added.
County planners are not sure, by
state law. whether all of what the
group has asked for can be legally
See Quarry, page 7
State permit hearing Tuesday
night, large turnout expected
By Terry Pope
County Editor
The state has received a request to delay a public
hearing on Martin Marietta's state mining permit set for
next Tuesday.
But the hearing is still scheduled as planned.
The company wants to mine 399 acres of its large tract
north of Southport. The public will have a chance to
comment on the proposal before officials with the N. C.
Department of Environment. Health and Natural Re
sources.
The hearing is set for November 30, 7 p.m., at the
county government center near Bolivia.
John Snyder, retired attorney who lives in Southport,
has asked that the hearing be postponed. The public has
insufficient information by which to judge the environ
See Permit, page 6
Voter check changes nothing
Long Beach group,
property managers
hearing Tuesday
By Holly Edwards
Municipal Editor
The Brunswick County Board of
Elections held hearings last week for
53 people whose voter registrations
were challenged by a Long Beach
resident.
The board sustained ten of the chal
lenges, over-ruled eight and tabled
seven until it could obtain more infor
mation. "Concerned Citizens of Long
‘It seems to me before someone files a
challenge they should get their fa^ts
straight..., It took up my time and it’s a
waste of taxpayers* money.’
Sandra Polston
Long Beach resident
Beach" member Becky Holt with
drew 28 challenges when it was shown
the people were in fact Long Beach
residents.
Of the 53 people who were chal
lenged only 15 actually went to the
polls, said board of elections director
Lynda Britt. Fourteen of the ballots
were placed in a sealed envelope pend
ing the outcome of the hearings, and
one ballot was accidentally counted
in the final results.
The resu! ts of the hearings will have
no effect on the outcome of the elec
tion.
"The wins were big wins,’1 Britt
pointed out. "None of the votes were
close enough that the challenges would
have mattered."
Candidates supported by "con
cerned citizens" were solidly defeated
by the incumbents and council candi
See Check, page 6
BHI may seek sprinkler law
General Assembly help may be sought
By Jim Harper
Staff Writer
be sought by the village.
The village council in a special November ? session asked the
North Carolina Building Code Council to allow a sprinkling
requirement for new multi-family construction - iargelyamean
ingless gesture, since no new multi-family construction is con
templated on the island,.
special permission from the state legislature to requite sprinklers.
Chapel Hill received such permission in the past legislative
m
the supreme authority on safety-related building requirements.
(The building council, a creature of the legislature, is a 15
tnember body appointed by the governor to regulate state con
sttuoion laws.)
Hie destroyed ten three-story buildings in the Swansquarter
chief Gregg Tamer that sprinklers be required In aQ new island
construction.
QnSarmtfay Eari F. FOwler, fire marshal and assistant fire chief
in Raleigh, told the council that sprinklers "would have slowed
the Swansquarter fire and could possibly have helped the fire
department to prevent its spread."
bowler said, "It can save property: it can save lives"
Set Spriukter, page 6
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Long Beach voices
quarry objection
By Holly Edwards
Municipal Editor
Long Beach council members de
clared last week that the proposed
Martin Marietta Aggregates lime
stone quarry would harm the envi
ronment and overall quality of life
enjoyed by the Southport-Oak Is
See Voice, page 6
Water discharge
permit, page 7
What opponents
now ask, page?
Editorial, public
comment, page 4
Forecast
The extended forecast
Wednesday and
Thursday calls for
partly cloudy skies,
followed by mostly
cloudy skies Friday
and Saturday. Highs
will be in the 70s on
Wednesday; Thursday
through Saturday ex
pect highs in the 60s
and lows in the 40s.
Tide table
HIGH LOW
THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 25
4:54 a.m. 11:07 a.m.
5:13 p.m. 11:17 p.m.
FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 26
5:38 a.m. 11:54 a.m.
5:57 p.m. -p.m.
SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 27
6:21 a.m. 12:01 ajn.
6:39 p.m. 12:39 pjn.
SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 28
.7:00 a.m. 12:43 a.a.
7:19 p.m. 12:39 p.m.
MONDAY, NOVEMBER 29
7:39 a.m. 1:22 a.m.
':56 p.m. 2:01 pjn.
TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 30
8:18 a.m. 2:02 a.m.
*:33 p.m. 2:41 pjn.
WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 1 ,
«.m. 2:41 a.m.
*14pm- . 3:22 p.m.
The following adjustments should be made:
Bald Head Island, high -10, low -7: Caswell
Beach. ■ — -
low _
Lockwood