SURF CITY — With sewer capacity at its limit and traffic issues not keeping up with growth, a coastal town’s planning board in Pender County recommended denial of a development that has come before the board twice in three months.
: ‘This sets the precedent’: Surf City rejects 99-unit development
On Oct. 10, the vote was unanimous against Colonial Heights — which could have potentially brought 182 units to abut Applewood Trace and Edgecombe Estates developments. Proposed to be built on an 86-acre tract along the northern part of N.C. 210, Ryan Homes developers were requesting a rezoning from R-10 residential district to conditional R-5 residential district. The latter is a more intensive development zoning than R-10, due it having smaller lot sizes…