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Visitors Bureau, planners outline Soundside boardwalk plan and timeline
Summary
The Outer Banks Visitors Bureau and Nags Head planning staff presented designs for a Soundside boardwalk, described funding and permitting, and said Millstone Marine will construct the project under a 150-day contract with a projected February ribbon-cutting. Residents raised safety and liability questions.
Lee Nettles, executive director of the Outer Banks Visitors Bureau, presented the visitors bureau's plan for a Soundside boardwalk to the Nags Head Planning Board on Tuesday, describing a raised walkway over marshland, observation decks and a nearly 2,000-square-foot gazebo as focal elements.
Nettles said the design includes an archway entrance and boardwalk sections that connect to existing boat slips and a proposed series of interpretive panels to highlight soundside ecology. "The contract says it needs to be done within 150 days," he said, adding that the tourism board has approved bids and the tourism board's restricted funds will pay construction costs pending Dare County Commissioners' consent, which staff said was granted on Sept. 3.
Town staff and the…
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