Planning board approves Hawksbill Cove master plan revision with drainage condition after lengthy public hearing

The Pender County Planning Board on Aug. 1 approved a revision to the master development plan for Hawksbill Cove, a 376‑acre planned development off Country Club Drive in Hampstead, subject to updated conditions including a drainage requirement tied to an identified parcel.

The applicant sought to revise a plan originally approved Dec. 7, 2010. The earlier approval allowed 1,105 residential units made up of 490 single‑family and 615 multifamily units, plus roughly 50,000 square feet of commercial and 60,000 square feet of civic/recreational uses. Under the revision the total unit count remains the same but the developer is converting what had been multifamily units into single‑family product types: 615 single‑family attached units (townhomes/duplexes/triplexes) and 490 single‑family detached units. The commercial allocation is reduced to 23,200 square feet and the prior 60,000 square feet of civic/recreational space has been removed from the allocation.

Staff and the applicant said several of the original infrastructure conditions have been completed, including construction of the Transfer Station Road extension and installation of a traffic signal at U.S. 17 and Transfer Station Road per NCDOT requirements. The applicant also plans to use an off‑site wastewater treatment provider (Pluris) rather than on‑site spray fields that had been contemplated in the older…