Nine-Year Mystery Surrounds Ash Road
BY TR.BRV PODK" \1/ O 1 -T-u ....
BY TERRY POPK
One controversial road name was run among ihe
30 approved by Brunswick County Commissioners
Monday.
It has Ash residents and county officials trying to
sort through a nine-year mystery.
Despite action by commissioners in 1983, the
n:\mc of the disputed road was never officially
changed from Warren Road to Virginia Road in N.C.
Department of Transportation logs as residents were
led to believe.
An heir property division rcccndy revealed the
problem, said Planning Director John Harvey. County
signs posted at the entrance label the byway Virginia
Road.
"I really don't know why there's a question when
there's been a sign up there for nine years," said Tina
Smith. "I think it's obviously a computer error."
Ms. Smith said the road was named as a memorial
to her mother. Others say the road was named Warren
Road at a community meeting at Waccamaw School in
1981.
Such road name disputes arc typical in Brunswick
County as planners work to eliminate duplicate names
in preparation for the 911 communications program
that begins in April. All streets with two or more
homes that do not have names must be given names.
Property owners along Virginia Road have been
asked to petition the county again, indicating what
they want the road to be called. District 1 Com
missioner Kelly Holden said he wants the request to be
updated to settle the dispute.
Roscoc Warren said he thought in 1981 that people
would find it controversial to name the road after his
family but agreed when the decision was made. Some
of the names on a 1983 petition asking that it be
changed to Virginia Road were not property owners,
he claims.
"The Warren name was never stabilized," said
Warren. "I could never understand why 1 had friends
in the community that wanted to take that sign down."
He asked commissioners Monday to keep it the
Warren Road. The county's list had proposed chang
ing it to Virginia Road, again.
Marion Warren, a Shallottc attorney, asked com
missioners to table the matter until a new petition is
presented.
"There apparently is something going on here that
cannot be addressed immediately," said Warren.
"However, do not exclude my father frorn the process ''
1 larvey said county tax maps show 23 people own
property along the 3,200-foot road that intersects with
N.C. 130 (Whitcvillc Highway).
Angela Smith said she moved back to Virginia
Road two years ago to open a business. She questioned
how the county could purchase and install the signs
when it was never an official name.
"It's right on the pole above the Whitcvillc
Highway sign," said Ms. Angela Smith. "I assume it
got dicrc the same way the Whitcvillc Highway sign
got there."
Other Comments
Commissioners compromised Monday when nam
ing a street near the Pearl Golf Links at Sunset Beach.
Part of a road that connects Old Georgetown Road
and Sunset Lakes will be called Sunset Lakes Boule
vard and the rest Pearl Boulevard.
Harvey said a "V", or sharp curve, in the highway
would be die dividing line.
Property owners along the highway told county
planners that the property owners association president
did not speak on their behalf. The neighborhood had
remained split over a name, said Harvey.
Also, Charles Hewett of Lcland spoke in favor of
changing Phelps Road (S R. 1461) in Lcland to the
HewcU-Burton Road to honor his ancestors. Residents
refer to the road as Old Mill Road, but there is already
a road widi that name in the community.
Residents became confused when the Old Mill
Road sign was recently rcplaccd with a Phelps Road
sign, said Hewett.
"We signed some more petitions," said Hewett.
Hewett- Burton was one of the 30 road names ap
proved by the board.
DOT Targets Two Shallotte Roadways For Improvements
Improvements to the intersection
of Main Street and Smith Avenue in
Shallottc arc on the agenda for fund
ing when the State Board of
Transportation meets Friday in
Raleigh.
Staff is requesting 53,000 to in
stall channelization at the intersec
tion. Smith Avenue is one of the ac
cess roads connecting Main Street to
U.S. 17.
Another road on the same side of
town will also see improvements.
Lee Curry, the DOT county engi
neer, said a contract has already
been awarded to MAC Construction
Co. of Shallottc to widen N.C. 130
cast from Main Street to the city
limits to create a center turning lane.
Work should begin this month and
be completed before the tourist sea
son begins in earnest, he indicated.
Three other urban projects in the
county are on the state board agenda
for funding. These includc widening
of Ocean Drive (S R. 1 104) from ihc
Yaupon Beach city limit 1.25 miles
west, at a cost of S50,(XX); draining
improvements on Ocean Drive in
Long Bcach at 43rd Street, S5.000;
and improvement of the intersection
of N.C. 133, S.R. 1100 (Fort Cas
well Bcach Road) and Ocean Drive
in Yaupon Bcach, S30,(XX).
The board is also cxpcctcd to in
crease funds allocated for two other
projects. Another 581,000 has been
requested for construction of the rest
area at the intersection of N.C. 130
West and U.S. 17. That is in addition
to the SI. 4 million already approved.
Also, another S503,000 is re
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Galloway Road (S.R. 1401) to the
intersection of U.S. 17 north of
Bolivia, the U.S. 17 bypass of Boli
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