Holden Beach Files Lawsuit
Over High Yard Light
by nou<; ruttkk
Hoklen Beach has asked lor a
court order lhai would force a resi
dent to lower a yard light that is
higher than town code allows.
Town Attorney Kenneth Camp
bell filed the complaint July 5 in
Brunswick County Superior Court
as part of the town's effort to en
force a contfoversial outside light
ing ordinance that went into effect
last fall.
Defendants are Howard and Iris
Wyrick of Kannapolis, Steven Brad
shaw and George Bradshaw.
George Bradshaw said he had the
light erected
outside his resi
dence at 258
Brunswick Ave
nue West, and
the three other
defendants
shouldn't be in
volved in the
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Wyricks own
BRADSIIAH ihe house and
are in the proccss of selling it to
Bradshaw 's son, Steven.
In the complaint, the town asks
for a court order that would force
the defendants to lower a yard light
that is more than 10 feet off the
ground ? 'he maximum height al
lowed in residential districts.
Hie light is attached to a utility
pole and is 20 feet off the ground. If
the light was lowered to 10 feet.
Bradshaw said it would provide 60
pcrccni less illumination.
Bradshaw, an csophagean speak
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cr, said he needs the yaril light for
health reasons. He said he often
goes outside in the middle of the
night to exercise his lungs.
"They've done everything in the
world to bluff me into taking that
light down," he said last week.
Bradshaw, who made an unsuc
cessful bid for town commissioner
in IW), said 44 residents on Bruns
wick Avenue have told him the yard
liglu is "nothing hut an asset." Me
said lhat only a lew of Ins neighbors
oppose the light.
Holder1. Beaeh also wants the
court to make each defendant pay
the town S2.S per day from the time
they are notified of the legal action
until ihcy make payment at town
hall.
Hoklcn Bcach's outside lighting
ordinance was adopted in November
ll>89 and took el feet last November.
Property owners have voiced sup
|x>rt and opposition to the rules.
The former interim town manag
er, Diane Clark, notified defendant
Slcvcn Bradshaw of the violation on
Feb. 8. according to the complaint.
However, due to difficulty in de
termining the interests of the parties
involved, no formal citation was
served on the three other defen
dants.
Therefore, the town plans to as
sess the civil penalty from the date
the court action is served. The com
plaint says all of the defendants
have refused to lower the yard light
to the 1 0-foot maximum height al
lowed.
The defendants have hired Shal
lotte attorney Roy Trcst. Bradshaw
said a response to the complaint
would be filed widiin 30 days.
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