The Town Council directed Town Manager Cliff Ogburn at its Sept. 5 meeting to submit an application to the Dare County Tourism Board for a grant to help with construction costs for a westside sidewalk on N.C. Hwy. 12/Duck Road from East Dogwood Trail to Hickory Trail.
The application for a Dare County Tourism Impact grant must be filed by the end of this month, a deadline that was the impetus for the town hall/public forum on potential new sidewalks that was held on Aug. 29.
More than 60 residents and property owners attended the town hall: Nearly all of the people who spoke opposed sidewalk segments proposed in a “priority” list prepared by the Town Council that was circulated before the meeting. Most of the opponents addressed potential sidewalks on streets along the cut-thru route, however, and did not single out Duck Road.
(See The Beacon, 8/30/23. See also The Beacon, 8/24/23 and 9/3/23.)
Also last week, the Council authorized survey work to be done for 1) a possible extension of the new Duck Road westside sidewalk from Hickory Trail to Hillcrest Drive; 2) a future sidewalk on the north side of Skyline Road, from the asphalt path that is by vacationers in Chicahauk to cut over from Spindrift Trail to Skyline, to Ocean Boulevard; and 3) a possible extension of the existing Juniper Trail sidewalk to U.S. Hwy. 158.
Council members debated the need for a sidewalk on Skyline Road, with Mayor Pro Tem Matt Neal expressing doubt, but did not reach consensus.
The suggested extension on Juniper Trail would run along the east side of the street, from where the current sidewalk ends to the U.S. Hwy. 158 intersection.
The Town previously committed to construction of an eastside sidewalk on Duck Road from Triangle Park, where the cell tower is, to East Dogwood Trail. (See photo above.)
The Town Council next meets on Oct. 3, at 5:30 p.m., in the Pitts Center. Mayor Elizabeth Morey announced that the Mayor Pro Tem will chair the meeting in her absence.
PLANNING BOARD TO CONSIDER SAGA INVESTOR GROUP’S SPECIAL USE PERMIT FOR MULTI-USE PROJECT AT GINGUITE CREEK
The Planning Board will consider at its Monday meeting a special use permit (SUP) application submitted by Ginguite, LLC/SAGA for a mixed-use group development of residential and commercial buildings at 6195 N. Croatan Hwy. (U.S. 158), next to the Southern Shores Landing.
The meeting will be held at 5 p.m. in the Pitts Center. The Beacon plans to cover it.
Quible & Associates, P.C., prepared the site plans for the project, which consists of luxury condominiums mixed with commercial businesses on what the applicant represents as a 300,000+ square-foot parcel of creekfront land. Cathleen M. Saunders, an engineer with Quible, will represent Ginguite LLC before the Planning Board, according to the permit application.
You may download Ginguite’s application, site plans, and other supporting materials for what the Town is calling SUP 23-01 at https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fo/mrp7lcuwj4f4j7cu3dvvv/h?rlkey=ipoe2t6oui2ocn36rvmu81776&dl=0.
We will plumb the details of the project in our report on Monday’s meeting.
Ann G. Sjoerdsma, 9/15/23
The Southern Shores Beacon 