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Residents urge slower growth, better infrastructure and more public notice for planned developments
Summary
Multiple residents at the June 2 meeting urged commissioners to reconsider permitting and notification processes for planned developments, citing roadway capacity, evacuation-route flooding, school capacity and limited public engagement with the planning board and TRC process.
Residents used the public comment period to press county leaders on development policy, transportation capacity and emergency-evacuation routes.
Shirley Sullivan of 5002 Seward Court, Southport, told the board the county's 2040 comprehensive plan (Brunswick Blueprint 2040) did not list development as a top resident concern and asked why the county appears to be "going from rural to urban." Sullivan said the county-appointed planning board effectively decides planned developments and rezoning, and she criticized the timing of public hearings that she said are followed immediately by votes. "Why not have the public hearing a week or 2 before the planning board vote?" she asked.
Sullivan also said developers pay little toward…
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