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‘I think we’re trying to build a community’: Development company says it can start planning now that Dare commissioners approved density increase for group of Colington lots
The Dare County Board of Commissioners at its Wednesday meeting in Manteo unanimously approved a zoning map amendment to increase the density on a group of Colington lots.

Corinne Saunders
Sep 44 min read


‘I’m not going down the road of another Wanchese,’ Dare board chairman says. Commissioners table proposed zoning change about Frisco and Buxton, applicant plans to wait on final decision
The consultant for a company that proposed a zoning text amendment to remove the 1988 multifamily density cap for a roughly 7-mile-long area of Frisco and Buxton said the plan is to wait, even though the Dare County Board of Commissioners’ tabling of the amendment Monday for 90 days does not prevent the applicant or anyone else from building in the “Zone of Influence” area in question, according to county staff.

Corinne Saunders
May 78 min read
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