THE VIRGINIAN-PILOT
Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.
DATE: Friday, June 2, 1995 TAG: 9506020555
SECTION: LOCAL PAGE: B2 EDITION: NORTH CAROLINA
SOURCE: BY ANNE SAITA, STAFF WRITER
DATELINE: POWELLS POINT LENGTH: Short : 44 lines
A dilapidated trailer that had been the center of controversy between a developer and a Powells Point neighborhood has been moved.
``We've got our view back again,'' Jackie Dowdy said Thursday. Dowdy and several other residents of a 12-home waterfront community off U.S. 158 in Currituck County had protested the trailer placement last month.
The residents said the trailer, with missing windows, mildew and other signs of neglect, had been put at the entrance to their middle-class neighborhood after a petition was circulated against the developers, H.D. and Finley Newbern.
H.D. Newbern confirmed Thursday that the trailer had been moved. He declined to elaborate.
The Newbern brothers wanted to rezone some of their property to heavy manufacturing to accommodate a competition Go-Kart track.
Residents, worried that rezoning would allow other industries, such as a fuel plant or food processor, to locate next to their homes, petitioned against the rezoning.
The rezoning request was twice rejected by the Currituck County Board of Commissioners. Instead, commissioners have discussed allowing the competition track under general business zoning.
County Commissioner J. Owen Etheridge and H.B. Briggs of the county planning department met with Newbern a week ago to discuss moving the trailer.
Newbern, a farmer, had said he planned to move a farm family into the single-wide trailer that was set on the edge of the entrance to the development.
``You couldn't pass by it without noticing it,'' Briggs said. ``I've seen mobile homes that have been in a worse state of deterioration. Then again, I've seen a lot there were in better shape.''
``I'm just glad it's gone,'' said Dowdy, who was out of town on a family emergency when the trailer was removed last Friday afternoon. by CNB