THE VIRGINIAN-PILOT
Copyright (c) 1994, Landmark Communications, Inc.
DATE: Sunday, November 6, 1994 TAG: 9411060207
SECTION: LOCAL PAGE: B1 EDITION: NORTH CAROLINA
SOURCE: BY ANNE SAITA, STAFF WRITER
DATELINE: CURRITUCK LENGTH: Medium: 65 lines
The first test of the county's new adequate-facilities regulation may come Monday night.
The five-member board of commissioners is expected to take action at Monday's meeting on the 601-lot subdivision in Moyock called The Plantations. Sketch plan approval was delayed last month.
A 429-unit golf course community already has been approved for the property. Virginia Beach developer Alan Resh, who acquired the land at a public auction, wants to change the subdivision to reflect the current market.
Resh hopes to create an open-space subdivision of cul de sacs containing homes of 1,800 square feet and larger selling for a minimum $100,000 to $130,000.
Public hearings on two other area developments, including a 111-lot project to be called Dozier Acres, are scheduled for the 7 p.m. meeting at the Currituck Courthouse complex.
Dozier Acres would be between Dozier and Tulls Creek roads in Crawford Township and include single-family houses with septic tanks and wells on each lot.
The project is being introduced by Currituck developer E. Fletcher Humphries, whose past developments include The Village at Ocean Hill on the Outer Banks.
Also up for public comment is a Moyock residential development to be known as Dove Roost, developed by another local resident, James Ferebee.
Located on Puddin' Ridge Road, the 48-lot subdivision originally was to include 101 lots. A revised, smaller complex was brought to the Currituck planning staff on Oct. 21.
Days before the revision was submitted, the county commissioners had approved a new ordinance requiring developers of residential subdivisions with 50 or more lots to submit impact statements.
The data would then be used to determine whether the county can support the new neighborhoods, particularly with schools, police, traffic, fire and rescue and water services.
Currituck officials have been grappling in recent years to keep up with the influx of residents, particularly those migrating south from Hampton Roads to the Moyock area.
The adequate-facilities regulation approved last month was a way to control county residential growth.
The regulation originally called for developers of 20 or more lots to prepare housing, market, fiscal, environmental impact and traffic analyses. That number was raised, in part, to accommodate local ``land poor'' developers who may not be able to afford the costly studies.
Developers of smaller subdivisions, such as Dove Roost, would be subject to the new regulation once their complexes expanded to 50 or more lots.
Two other public hearings tonight involve rezoning two tracts of land, each a little less than an acre, from residential to general business. Both properties are on Pine Grove Lane in Point Harbor.
Other agenda highlights include:
Action on deleting surety bonds and adding deed of trust and bond as acceptable bond terms and methods.
Review of the U.S. 158 and N.C. 168 Corridor Committee recommendations for 1994-95.
Continued discussions on beach bonfires. by CNB