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The state's Coastal Resources
Commission bent its rules last Thursday
to grant a variance request from
the N.C. Baptist Assembly for construction
of a 32,500 square foot conference
center within an area of environmental
concern.
"It's a unique situation," Office of
Coastal Management Director David
Owens said afterward. "They're trying
to comply with the spirit and intent
of the regulations. They said it
was a good project and the Commission
agreed."
The 250-acrc assembly is located
on the eastern tip of Oak Island, on
the grounds of what was formerly
Fort Caswell. It has been owned by
the Baptist State Convention since
1949 and is used as a retreat and learning
center.
In January Brunswick County
denied the assemb'y a minor CAMA
permit for the project because it was
found inconsistent with both CRC
regulations and the county's land use
plan.
CAMA regulations permit only
residential structures of four units or
less or non-residential structures of
less than 5,000 square feet within the
inlet hazard area. The county's land
use plan discourages high intensity
uses and large structures within the
100-year flood plain, erosion prone
areas and other locations susceptible
to hurricane and flooding hazards.
Cha I lenaer
Education i
An improved educational system is
the key to economic revival in
eastern North Carolina, according to
14th District N.C. House candidate
Glen Peterson.
Peterson released his education
platform last week, saying improvement
of the system must begin with
teachers.
"Education provides the opportunity
to chance the pattern of the
past, a chance to break out of the cycle
of poverty and teenage pregnancy,"
said Peterson.
He noted that currently one in five
North Carolinians is considered functionally
illiterate. "Capable workers
who are literate and have job skills
provide the basis for higher-wage industries,"
he said.
He recommended several approaches
for improving the public
education system, including recruitmerit
of bright college students to
teach in the state, particularly in the
eastern section, providing scholarships
keyed to teaching in subjects
and geographic areas where there
are critical needs.
Peterson, an attorney for both the
Brunswick County Board of Education
and Brunswick Community College,
also hacks further reduction of
class, expanding on efforts begun
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However, leet Thurs^av tho Office*
of Coastal Management staff concurred
with the Assembly's view thai uie
proposed development was appropriate.
That recommendation,
said Owens, was based on the stable
nature of the adjacent Cape Fear
River Inlet and the Assembly's plans
to use the center to replace three existing
dormitories that stand closer
to the water than the facility intended
to replace them.
The dormitories were built before
the regulations were adopted and will
be relocated elsewhere on the
Assembly's grounds, outside the
hazard areas.
To build the conference
center?part of a long-range development
plan for the Assembly, "they'll
have to apply again for a permit and
meet all the other permit
conditions," said Owens.
The Assembly was represented at
the Thursday morning hearing by its
attorney, Jim frevatte of Southport.
While some of the state's inlets
may shift as much as 1,000 feet in a
matter of weeks, studies of Cape
Fear Inlet in 1974 and 1978 showed
that it is "very stable" with lttle
movement since 1938 and little movement
expecpted in the future. In fact,
aerial photographs made in conjunction
with the 1974 study show "significant
accretion" or buiiding up of the
Assembly's property at the site of the
proposed construction between 1949
and 1972.
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but allows for an increase to 29," he
said. "Let's make class size definite
without any option for increase, and
work toward reducing elementary
class size to 18 per teacher."
He said he would also vote to speed
up the process of putting more
guidance counselors in high schools
and elementary schools and would
examine the balance of administrators
and clerical staff.
The state should also look at possible
full-time employment of adult bus
drivers?an approach now being
taken on a limited basis in Brunswick
County, with drivers used in support
roles in the schools during the day.
. This dual role creates full-time jobs
that pay enough to attract drivers, he
said.
Peterson's platform also includes
advocacy for higher salaries and better
benefits for teachers, including:
increased pay; dental plan for
teachers: "cafeteria" style benefits
plans; and improvements in the
Career Ladder program such as insuring
that evaluators are from the
teacher's subject area and creation
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be sure the process is fair before it is
implemented statewide.
He also supports increased funding
for the state's community colleges to
retrain adults for jobs.
Peterson is challenging incumbent
Rep. David E. Redwine of Ocean Isle
Beach in the May primarv.
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In other business last week, the
CRC's Planning and Special issues
Committee directed staff to draft
legislation that if adopted would ban
the use of plastic six-pack rings in the
state, set tentative hearing dates for
coastal counties regarding their updated
average erosion rates, and
adopted for public hearing proposed
changes in the size of decks allowed
over wetlands and public trust
waters.
Public Information Officer Kathy
Henderson told the committee that
the proposed legislation could help
reduce plastic pollution along the
coast. Thousands of marine mammals,
birds and fish die annually
when they attempt to eat or become
entangled in plastic waste?a focus of
the Beach Sweep program held last
September. A slide program on the
impact of plastic pollution on the
coast is available for check-out from
the CRC's Wilmington office for
showing to interested groups.
Erosion Rates Updated
Average annual erosion rates are
the major factor used in establishing
oceanfront setback standards for
construction:
This year, at an estimated cost of
$60,000 the coastal management staff
has updated figures last compiled in
11)83. The study involves analysis of
aerial photographs of the state's entire
shoreline. At the remiest of the
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mittee, the new maps will indicate
that while the maps don't show the effect
of nourishment projects along
the coast, that the manually placed
fill is considered by the CRC staff in
its permitting process.
A hearing on the updated average
annual erosion rates for Brunswick
County will be held May 19 at 7 p.m.
in Southport City Hall, in the
aldermen's chambers.
After hearings in all 20 coastal
counties are completed, tentatively
by May 25, the CRC will decide
whether setbacks should be changed
in accordance with the updated information
on erosion. The changes will
effect those places designated as
areas of environmental enncpm
because of susceptibiitv to erosion or
flood damage.
Rule Reworded
The CRC also accepted a recommendation
of the Implementation
and Standards Commiiiee regarding
deck size. Preston Pate, field services
director, said the proposed
change would "make it easier to
issue a permit" especially where the
wetland margin is irregular.
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be up to 500 square feet in
size, so long as the depth of the platform
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