The quasi-judicial hearing before the Southern Shores Town Council about the Special Use Permit application (SUP 23-01) submitted by a subsidiary of SAGA Realty & Construction for a mixed-use development at 6195 N. Croatan Hwy., on Ginguite Creek, will not be held Tuesday during the Council’s regular monthly meeting, as previously announced.
The Town Council will meet Tuesday at 5:30 p.m. in the Pitts Center, but it will not hear SAGA’s application, according to the meeting agenda released by the Town today.
The Town Council had been scheduled to hear SAGA’s application at its Jan. 9 meeting, but that meeting was canceled because of inclement weather, and the Town announced the hearing would be rescheduled to its Feb. 6 meeting.
Since then, the Town has neither updated its rescheduling announcement nor given the legally required notice for the hearing. It has made no mention of the pending SUP 23-01, which the Planning Board unanimously recommended Nov. 20 be denied.
(For background on the SAGA application hearing, see The Beacon, 1/4/24 and 1/8/24.)
For the meeting agenda, see https://mccmeetings.blob.core.usgovcloudapi.net/soshoresnc-pubu/MEET-Packet-2a76f908978849398efa30915800c2e4.pdf.
The meeting agenda posted on the Town website today appears routine, featuring the usual staff reports, with the exception of a closed Council session with the Town Attorney that is scheduled amid these reports.
The Town Council will adjourn for its closed session after the Police Chief and Fire Chief have given their December and January reports, but before the Planning Director/Deputy Town Manager and Town Manager give their monthly updates.
There is no indication from the agenda that the Town Manager will be breaking any new ground in his report.
As usual, two public comment periods will be held during the meeting.
The Town Council last met Jan. 16 at 9 a.m. for a mid-monthly meeting whose primary purpose was the holding of a closed session with the Town Attorney, pursuant to N.C. General Statutes sec. 143-318.11(a)(3), which is the attorney-client privilege exception to an open meeting. The agenda cites this same statutory exception for the Council’s closed session Tuesday.
Pursuant to NCGS 143-318.11(a)(3), the Council may close a session with a Town-employed or retained attorney to consult regarding the “handling or settlement of a claim, judicial action, mediation, arbitration, or administrative procedure.”
Mayor Pro Tem Matt Neal presided over the mid-monthly meeting, in Mayor Elizabeth Morey’s absence. The public portion of the meeting lasted less than 15 minutes.
THE SOUTHERN SHORES BEACON, 2/1/24
The Southern Shores Beacon 
Application was pulled
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Thank you, Debbie. I published an update to that effect, after reading about the withdrawal in The Voice. I strongly believe the Town was derelict in its responsibility to Southern Shores residents in not informing us of that fact when it happened, nearly one week ago.
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