THE VIRGINIAN-PILOT
Copyright (c) 1994, Landmark Communications, Inc.
DATE: Monday, October 3, 1994 TAG: 9410030039
SECTION: LOCAL PAGE: B1 EDITION: NORTH CAROLINA
SOURCE: BY ANNE SAITA, STAFF WRITER
DATELINE: CURRITUCK LENGTH: Medium: 65 lines
Currituck County residents can give their opinions on controversial developments in the Moyock area - and on a proposal to control growth - at Monday night's meeting of the Board of Commissioners.
Public hearings will be held on a proposed shopping center south of Pudding Ridge Road and a 601-lot residential subdivision to be known as The Plantations. Both have stirred debate in recent weeks because of concerns about their impact on county facilities and services, particularly in Currituck County's Moyock area.
But before commenting on these two plans, residents also will have a chance to talk about a proposal requiring developers to prove the county can support more housing and commercial complexes.
The first public hearing on the commissioners' agenda at the 8 p.m. meeting will focus on a county ordinance amendment requiring adequate public facilities regulations. The measure was recommended by the Currituck County Planning Board at its September meeting as a way to better control residential growth in one of North Carolina's fastest-growing counties. At that session, several county officials, including Currituck Public Schools Superintendent Ronnie Capps, spoke about the impact recent residential developments have had on the county's already strained services.
Capps noted that amenities, such as the proposed Moyock shopping center to be developed by Acey Commercial Properties of Virginia Beach, also attract more residents.
The Virginia developers are asking for 18.7 acres to be rezoned from agricultural to general business to provide enough room for a center, anchored by a grocery store, along N.C. 168.
If the adequate facilities provision is adopted by commissioners, developers would have to submit housing, market, fiscal, traffic and environmental impact analyses of new communities with 20 or more lots.
The required study would provide city planners and commissioners a means to control residential growth, particularly on the county's mainland.
The county, with a current population of approximately 14,500, already has felt the strain of rapid growth on its schools, water system and fire and rescue services.
Almost 500 new students have been added to the county's six schools in the past five years, creating overcrowded conditions that have been eased by 38 mobile units at various campuses.
Prior to Monday's regular meeting will be a 7 p.m. work session with a water task force to discuss a future drinking water source for the county's mainland and Outer Banks.
Other public hearings on Monday include:
A special-use permit request from C.W. Bryant and C.H. Bryant to expand an existing sand mining operation located on N.C. 168 along the North Carolina-Virginia state line.
Amendment to delete surety bonds and add deeds of trust as acceptable bond terms and methods for developers.
Special-use permits for an addition to the Corolla Fire and Rescue station at 827 Whalehead Drive and the Lower Currituck Volunteer Fire Department in Grandy.
Changing Ninth Street in Point Harbor to Rose Lane.
KEYWORDS: CURRITUCK COUNTY BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS by CNB