A public information meeting on the bridge project was held last week at Town Hall in Duck.  Attached is a handout from the meeting.

The meeting was well attended, and a number of people provided public comments.  The project has cleared all legal hurdles and is at the CAMA permit application phase.  While some people who provided comments were opposed to the bridge, a majority were in favor of it.  Very few comments addressed actual permitting issues.

There are more steps ahead before permit approval, budgeting and start of construction.  I don't think there's any schedule for the remaining steps beyond permitting.

Our impression is that this project is moving forward toward ultimate construction of a Mid-Currituck bridge.

In the past year, a vendor requested a Town special permit to operate an amusement arcade business.  There was significant community opposition to this, and the Town ended up denying the request based upon the Town Code at the time.

There is a new request to change the Town Code to permit some amusement arcade businesses.  I believe the Town Planning Board reviewed this and recommended against a change to the Town Code, but the Town Council appears to want to discuss a potential change anyway.  Before they do that, they want to conduct a public hearing to get community feedback on this issue.

The public hearing will be held on April 2nd at Town Hall.  Here's a link for it:  https://ducknc.gov/news/town-council-to-conduct-a-public-hearing-on-wednesday-april-2-2025/

If you would like to provide positive or negative feedback on this issue, you can attend the public hearing or email your feedback to the Town at [email protected]

NCDOT owns and maintains the Carolina Dunes streets.  They will be repaving our streets this month, probably starting this week.

All streets will remain open to traffic during the repaving effort.  However, the traffic will be limited to one-way traffic when repaving is occurring on any particular street.  Each street is expected to be completed within a day or two.