Potentially, 100 properties in New Hanover County and 36 in Brunswick County will have to be purchased for construction of the Cape Fear Skyway.
Owners of those parcels may soon be prohibited from developing them, but it may be years before the state has the money to buy the land.
Transportation officials released a map this week showing properties that fall in the route of the proposed 9.5-mile toll road, which includes a high-rise bridge over the Cape Fear River south of the Port of Wilmington.
"It's not the final route," cautioned Mike Kozlosky, executive director of the Wilmington Metropolitan Planning Organization, a transportation planning agency. "It is a map demonstrating a potential corridor for the Cape Fear Skyway."
Transportation officials soon will decide whether to encourage elected leaders in both counties to prohibit development of properties along the route, which could change as planning progresses. A resolution in support of that is expected to be considered at the Aug. 18 meeting of the Transportation Advisory Committee, which sets transportation priorities for the region.
Protecting the corridor would give the state time to finalize Skyway plans and eventually purchase the parcels before further development – new homes or shopping centers, for example – makes them too costly for the state to buy.
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