Tuesday, May 21, 2019
By Outer Banks Voice on December 2, 2018
Parking will be incorporated into Schooner E.S. Newman Drive that looped inside the old USCG housing complex. (NPS/OBV/Google)
Five years after being first proposed, a new beach access at the former Coast Guard station in Buxton will be discussed in a meeting planned for Wednesday by the National Park Service.
The 50-vehicle lot proposed for the end of Old Lighthouse Road will include a handicap-accessible boardwalk and is one of 29 projects planned in Cape Hatteras National Seashore back in 2013.
The meeting is scheduled for 6 to 7 p.m. at the Fessenden Center Annex Building, 47017 Buxton Back Road in Buxton.
Cape Hatteras National Seashore Superintendent David Hallac and other National Park Service staff will be available to answer questions.
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