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Land use planning
Battle of Midway
Long Beach mayor
says the planning
document does not
attempt to exert
control over zoning

Brunswickoffi-; •
cials believe Long
Beach involved
the county in the
land use planning
m the county s jurisdiction
process alter the tact
By Richard Nubel
Municipal Editor
Where do the planning interests of the Town of
Long Beach begin?
In other times that would have been a fairly easy
question to answer. Until now one could open a map
and with some accuracy assert those interests begin at
79th Street on the east and end at the “point” at Kings
Lynn to the west. Taking the long view, the town has
also asserted extraterritorial planning interests one
mile across the Intracoastal Waterway.
But, with prospects for a second bridge to western
Oak Island at Middleton Street looming — with
prospects for a new five-mile or longer road mean
dering through completely undeveloped land to the
Long Beach front door, that question becomes more
difficult to answer.
Wanting to plan adequately for this new corridor
that will bring traffic directly into Long Beach from
the mainland, Long Beach officials, in consultation
with professional planners, decided Long Beach’s
planning interests did not begin at the foot of that new
western bridge. Neither did the town’s planning inter
ests begin one mile from the bridge at the line to
See Long Beach, page 7
By Terry Pope .
County Editor
A turf war has developed between Long Beach and
the county over who will control development along
the corridor to a second bridge to Oak Island.
Long Beach asked the Brunswick County Planning
Board last week to endorse a plan that will give the
town planning authority over land up to five miles
outside its territorial jurisdiction. Long Beach has
.drafted an amendment to its 1993 Land Use Plan
which carefully outlines how town officials envision
development along the approach to the island in the
vicinity of N. C. 211 and the Midway community if a
second bridge is constructed.
County planners, however, are also drafting a land
use plan update and will include a concept of how the
corridor ought to be built and developed. There are at
least five routes the new highway may take to reach
N. C. 211, with the most pursued plan being one that
links to Midway Road. That area is clearly within the
county’s zoning jurisdiction. i
“I appreciate all that Long Beach has done,” said Jp
Ann Bellamy Simmons, chairman of the Brunswick
County Board of Commissioners. “I have a problem
See Brunswick, page 7
Council to the rescue
Long Beach to employ squad personnel
By Richard Nubel
Municipal Editor
Wanting to shore-up response time
to medical emergencies, Long
Beach Town Council Tuesday night
authorized staff to begin recruiting
personnel to serve as paid members
of the town's rescue squad.
Long Beach will become the sec
ond municipality in Brunswick
County to employ emergency med
ical professionals. The Village of
Bald Head Island also has paid res
cue personnel on stall.
"In looking at the options avail
able, the best is to go with paid per
sonnel during the daytime and that
we begin to do that now so that we
are prepared when the influx ol pop
ulation is high." town manager Jerry
Walters said, making his recommen
dation to council.
In other business brought before
town council's regular monthly
meeting, members again delayed
their decision whether or not to join
with Brunswick County in its solid
waste program set to begin July 1.
Councilors received a schedule of
fees — including county tipping fees
— for a variety of solid waste ser
vices Waste Industries Inc. will pro
vide the town if it does not join in
the countywide plan advocated by
county commissioners. Mayor Joan
Altman indicated council will make
its final decision on solid waste at a
7 a.m. workshop session April 29.
Council also had little to say
before it adopted a memorandum of
understanding and endorsement
which calls for establishment of a
steering committee with representa
tives of Brunswick County to imple
ment the Second Bridge to Oak
See Long Beach, page 10
By Terry Pope
County Editor
County election officials are preparing to hold the local May 5
primary as planned, although it is shaping up to be a quiet one.
V A special primary will be needed in September, however, to vote
for U S. Congressional candidates, including a vote for the 7th
District seat now held by Mike McIntyre, who represents all of
Brunswick County.
Brunswick County Board of Elections director Lynda Britt said a
memo received Friday from the state board clears the way for local
candidates to plan on voters heading to the polls on time in two
See Primary, page 6
‘We understand
most of your mem
bers are working
folks. If providing
paid personnel
helps keep your
rescue squad
strong, we are
happy to do so.’
Joan Altman
Long Beach mayor
Second fire
postpones
reopening
By Holly Edwards
Feature Editor
On the morning that the fire-dam
iged Leland Middle School was
scheduled to reopen, someone appar
ently broke through a window and
jsed papers, books and boxes to set
Fire in a fifth grade classroom.
The State Bureau of Investigation
md Brunswick County Sheriff’s
Department are investigating the blaze
rs a possible arson, said superinten
See Second fire, page 9
Photo by Jim Harper
All hands were aloft taking in sails as the Cape Fear pilot boat stood alongside the Endeavour Thursday to
carry pilot Wayne Ludlum ashore. The captain then elected to anchor the ship at sea for the night, so har
bonvatchers had a chance to see the replica bark pass a second time Friday morning.
Yaupon Beach
Disposal plan
accommodates
more capacity
By Richard Nubel
Municipal Editor
Facing a lawsuit from a mainland
property developer once assured of
sewer service by the
town, Yaupon Beach
commissioners have
authorized a
$538,000 project to
increase present
wastewater disposal
capacity by approxi
mately 60,000 gal
lons per day. .
Meeting last week,
commissioners
authorized town staff
to negotiate with con
sulting engineering
firm Finch, Boney
and Associates to
design a spray-irriga
tion disposal system
for a seven-acre tract
the town owns near
its wastewater treat
ment plant on Fish
hactory Koad. Although the Boney
firm was fired by commissioners
last year, commissioners said the
firm is in ppssession of most infor
mation about the project and it
would not be cost-effective to turn
to another engineering firm at this
time.
The project
allows capacity
allocation to
developers of
mainland prop
erty on the
Intracoastal
Waterway just
east of the Oak
Island bridge
“The project ... provides the full
capacity needed by the town,”
Boney engineer Robert Graham
wrote recently in an outline of the
project presented to commissioners
last week.
The proposed pro
ject calls for installa
tion of 1,540 linear
feet of irrigation
pipe and 26 sprin
klers at a cost of
$18,000; upgrade of
the on-site rapid
infiltration disposal
basin at a cost of
$35,000; and con
struction of a 2.6
million-gallon stor
age pond, a two-mil
lion-gallon off-line
pond, a pump station
and pumping equip
ment at a cost of
$320,000.
Engineering, con
struction, project
management and
contingency costs mice tne project
budget to $538,000.
Town clerk Nancy Wilson Tues
day said the disposal will provide
the entire disposal capacity needed
by the town now. The project
assumes a need tor 200,000-gallon-.
See Yaupon, page 9
pick-up
is tested
By Terry Pope
County Editor
About 300 rural residents have
already received roll-out
garbage disposal carts ahead of
full implementation of the
Waste Industries Inc. contract
that is scheduled to start July 1.
Residents along Midway
Road and other communities
near Bolivia and Supply are tak
ing part this week in test runs
that will help Waste Industries
train new employees under the
six-year, $30-million contract
approved by Brunswick County
last month.
Waste Industries has divided
the county into 11 sections as
part of its operating plan to col
lect door-to-door from some
44,000 households. It will then
haul garbage to a regional land
fill in Sampson County. The
See Pick-up, page 6
What’s inside
Police report 6
District Court 14
Business 15
Obituaries 16
Church 4B
Schools 7B
TV schedule 8B
Classifieds 5C
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