This is what YOU said..Why might people be turned off to the traditional Nags Head and go to Corolla? It might be that we have too many people in town now.

Look at the picture above!!
Doesn’t this explain it all…
Is this what you want all of Nags Head to look like??
I think you want it to look like it, so less people will come here

And, we just opened all those condos (SEE STORY). Even if we lost those 30-year-old or more hotels, the town has a huge net gain already.

I don’t think the goal should be “AS MUCH MONEY AS WE CAN GET, LET’S STACK AS MANY TOURISTS AS WE CAN ON THE BEACH!” That’s too close to pure greed.

Why might people be turned off to the traditional Nags Head and go to Corolla? It might be that we have too many people in town now.

If there is no nourishment program, homes, hotels, and roads and other infrastructure will continue to end up in the ocean or on the beach. The legal process to remove private homes from the beach is lengthy, so homes sit on the beach for multiple years, protected by sandbags, with the beach shrinking between the water and the sandbags. This process will not stop. Eventually, say 20 or 30 years from now, much of the tax base will be gone, and only the road will remain if we do nothing.

Dr. Kana was actually in town for a public meeting on Tuesday. He clearly explained the reasoning on how much sand – it was based on historical data on the amount of sand lost over a ten year period.

Now in 20 years, you might be retired and moved, or not, but the Town and the County need to think long-term. Too often, government waits until the crisis is at our doorstep, then we spend more money on repair than we would have spent on prevention. As the tax base goes into the ocean, it can’t be replaced because of the CAMA setbacks. If we continue to do nothing, it may be too late soon. Look at the threatened tax base at Whalebone Junction – 4 major structures, sandbagged. What do you think the value of the tax revenue from the Comfort Inn, Diamond Shoals, The Yachtsman and Bodie Island Beach Club totals?

Has anyone at the County level asked Mr. Kana – whose company, by the way, is the only entity benefiting from this whole debacle – what the County stands to get in return for spending $20 million on beach nourishment?

Add up the occupancy and property tax that might not exist in the absence of beach nourishment – or that might not exist even with a $20 million beach nourishment project – and see if it totals $20 million.

Oh, and be sure to consider ONLY those properties that may actually benefit from beach nourishment (not every property east of the beach road).

Please, fellow citizens, do not fall for this false dilemma. The ocean wants there to be a beach. For proof, look at what has happened to the beach in Kitty Hawk where Isabelle wiped out a string of sand-bagged cottages. Where there was not even room to walk dry-shod in front of the cottages, there is a broad, active, natural beach.

We have time to think this through. There’s no need for a rubber stamp from the county chair. Way to go, thanks again.

But they wont come here, if there IS NO BEACH!!!