Panel: Restrictions needed if N.C. jetty ban lifted

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The Associated Press
© March 25, 2010

RALEIGH, N.C.

A state coastal panel says lawmakers should put strong monitoring and environmental reviews in place should they end a 1985 ban on jetties designed to block shifting sand on the North Carolina coast.

The Coastal Resources Commission voted Thursday to recommend several restrictions to the General Assembly if it chooses to allow use of the jetties. The Legislature asked for a response from the panel by April 1.

The panel said the jetties should be permitted only when other erosion control responses — even relocating buildings and homes — are impracticable.

The structures run perpendicular to the shore and close to a tidal inlet to catch sand and keep the shoreline intact. Environmental groups don't like the jetties and say they'll encourage risky waterfront building.

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Submitted by smell the coffee on Fri, 03/26/2010 at 1:20 pm.

Amazing that they're even considering this. Just watch the developers scurrying to find ways around it.

It will certainly mean the end of the Outer Banks as we know it. First the dunes, then Highway 12 and now beach hardening. People just don't get it: it's a sandbar, for God's sake!

On the other hand, it will be amusing to watch the locals and their political cronies in favor of this sort of idiocacy scrambling to keep up with all of the erosion they'll create. They just never learn.

Poor old David Stick must be turning in his grave.