The next regular information and update meeting for the Four Towns Beach Nourishment Project will be held tomorrow at 1:30 p.m. in the Pitts Center. The public is invited to attend and ask questions of project principals.
Weeks Marine started pumping sand on the beach at 60 Ocean Blvd. in Southern Shores last Friday, after having to delay the dredging because of storm conditions, which necessitated new dredging surveys, according to an update by Town Manager Cliff Ogburn.
Weeks’ crews will work their way south to the Kitty Hawk line from 60 Ocean Blvd., Mr. Ogburn confirmed in the Town’s latest online report.
There is no word yet on when the dredging will begin in other sections of the Southern Shores oceanfront. On Oct. 4, when Mr. Ogburn gave an update on the project to the Town Council, he said Weeks still had work to do in Kitty Hawk.
The Southern Shores beach will be accessible during the construction process, which is expected to take about six weeks in toto.
The Four Towns Beach Nourishment Project, which unites the towns of Kill Devil Hills, Kitty Hawk, Duck, and Southern Shores, meets bi-weekly. Tomorrow’s meeting will be the second one held in Southern Shores.
The Town of Nags Head contracted with the Great Lakes Dredge and Dock Co. for its 2022 beach restoration project, which involved just 4.45 miles of beach and 19 days of construction in July-August.
SCALING BACK . . . COMMUNITY INPUT IN LAND-USE PLAN UPDATE
The Beacon will be discontinuing its nuts-and-bolts reporting on Town Planning Board and Town Council meetings and only be publishing occasional special reports on town and county news. This action is being taken in response to readership interest, as well as our own interest and time limitations.
The next community event of consequence to residents townwide is the first public workshop in the update process for the Southern Shores CAMA Land Use Plan, which has been tentatively scheduled on the evening of Nov. 15, according to Deputy Town Manager/Planning Director Wes Haskett’s report to the Town Council at its Oct. 4 meeting.
Mr. Haskett identified Nov. 15 as the “kickoff” day with the Town’s planning and design consultant, Stewart Inc., which is based in Raleigh. Stewart recently worked with the Towns of Duck and Manteo to coordinate comprehensive land-use plan updates that preserve the towns’ visions, identities, and unique coastal environments and meet all Coastal Area Management Act requirements.
Public engagement in the Southern Shores plan update is critical to determining future land use and policy in town.
To understand better the role that Stewart will play in the update, please see the Request for Proposals that the Town issued for the plan update contract: https://www.southernshores-nc.gov/wp-content/uploads/2022/07/7-1-22-Town-of-Southern-Shores-2022-CAMA-Land-Use-Plan-Update-RFP-1.pdf.
Mr. Haskett also reported last week that the projected opening for the Marshalls department store in the Southern Shores Marketplace is March or April 2023.
Ann G. Sjoerdsma, 10/10/22
The Southern Shores Beacon 
The meeting is Wednesday at 1:30 .
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Thanks, Len. The Town website says today, 10/11. I’ll update that.
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