St. James officials hope they will be able to extend St. James Drive about one mile to Middleton Boulevard, near the new Swain's Cut Bridge, providing residents in the southernmost area of town an additional way in and out. To do so, the road would need to extend through property incorporated into the Town of St. James, owned by St. James Plantation LLC, and cross a parcel incorporated into the Town of Oak Island.
That parcel also extends on the other side of Middleton Boulevard, covering much of the southwest quadrant of the Middleton Boulevard-N.C. 211 intersection, and is owned by DWE III LLC and LaDane Enterprises LLC, according to Brunswick County records.
DeCarol Williamson is manager and registered agent of DWE III LLC with the N.C. Secretary of State; LaDane Williamson is listed as the manager, and Paula Buis as the registered agent, of LaDane Enterprises LLC.
St. James town councilors recently said that the Williamson family is seeking permits from the state for access from their property to Middleton Boulevard. Once those permits have been obtained, town councilors will work to secure the easement needed from the Williamsons to cross the property they own on the east side of Middleton Boulevard.
"The access that they are seeking is on the west side of the road, not on the east side," said St. James councilor Bruce Maxwell. "They filed a PUD (planned unit development) to develop that land and they need to have access onto the bridge corridor road in order to make that development work."
Councilors hope to essentially connect St. James Drive to the access the Williamsons are seeking. Maxwell said he could not release maps showing exactly how St. James Drive could be extended until he knew whether the town would be granted an easement to cross the eastern portion of the Williamson land and connect to Middleton Boulevard.
Though it borders the Town of St. James, and the subdivision of St. James Plantation, the property owned by the Williamsons is situated in the Town of Oak Island. Chad Hicks, Oak Island's assistant town manager and town planner, said this week that plans to develop the property were "kind of on hold until the market picks up."
But during discussion about DOT plans to possibly place a square-ramp urban interchange, which is smaller but similar in shape to a cloverleaf, at the intersection of N.C. 211 and Middleton Boulevard, Oak Island town officials referred to both residential and commercial development on the Williamson property. At that time, Oak Island mayor Betty Wallace called the property prime commercial and residential real estate and referred to the property's future tax revenue for the town.
Hicks added, though, that he did not know when development of the property would move forward, and St. James town councilors cautioned that once the Williamsons obtained their permits from the state for access, the town would proceed with negotiations for an easement; if and when that is granted, the town would proceed with pursuing its own permits for the road, which could take up to a year, before beginning construction.
"We've got a long road to go," Maxwell said. "I wish it was something we could get done in a year, year and a half, but there's no way it's going to happen."
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